Remember that killer bunny from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail? Well I'm the killer ducky!
Friday, December 09, 2005
Sets over Sets, Oh My!
My session yesterday started off very badly. The very first hand someone posted in MP, and I also posted $1 in the CO, and picked up 22 (sweet pocket ducks for the KillerDucky, quack quack!). UTG limps, MP poster checks, I check, Button raises to $4. SB and I both call, 3 way to the flop.
It's 842 rainbow, awesome flop for me! SB checks and I check, and Button bet $4 into a $15.50 pot. So really the button could have almost any two trying to steal the limper + 2 posters + blinds. And now he's betting very weak on the flop? SB folded so I decided to get cute and min raise to $8. I figure this keeps overcards and any pocket pair in. Sure enough he just calls.
Turn is a 5, now two hearts. There are quite a few straight draws now (any ace has a gutshot) so I decide to put in a real bet. For some reason I choose just 1/2 the pot which on the smallish side. But then suddenly Button pushes allin, and its $73 to call and the pot is $134.50. I have a set, so I think it's a must call situation, since there's almost no way he has 67 for a straight, I just have to pray it's an overplayed AA/KK or something. Unfortunately he had 55, spiking a higher set on the turn, and I lose my entire stack the very first hand!
Revenge of the Straight Flush (draw)
The rest of the night was going ok and I was coming back from the huge loss first hand. But my previous good fortune with straight flushes was about to change.
It's folded to me in the CO with 75s, I raise to $4, only the BB calls. Flop comes J86, with the 86 in my suit, giving me a real monster drawing hand. The pot is already $8.50 and BB is a little short only having $39 left, so I really feel the only way to play this is fast. He checks and I bet out $6, he min-raises to $12, I push, he calls. Well he had KK and he dodges 15 cards twice to win a $83.50 "coin flip" (actually I had 56% equity on the flop).
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