First off, let me tiltily say I\’m a little pissed at Tom, who paid our election bet via PokerStars. Granted, I told him that would be fine … after all, Tom is different from most people in the poker biz, in that he likes to pay off his debts as soon as possible … but as a non-frequent casher-outer on Stars, I didn\’t know I couldn\’t withdraw these recently deposited funds for 48 hours.
Total bullshit! Though I still for the life of me can\’t see how this is any different from transferring funds via TD Ameritrade, it\’s not cool to know these winnings are still at risk! I mean my goodness, an extra chunk of cash, right there just a few clicks away from games bigger than I usually play? How on earth could any reasonable degenerate be expected to resist?!?
The set-up below: I had been playing at this table for 15 or 20 minutes … started with $200, and my stack was at its session peak when the hand began. While my first mistake was probably even just being in the hand, this was 6-max NL, baby! Am I wrong to think this is a game of trying to out-felt each other? Grinding is for full tables, and limit … I knew what I was doing here.*
Ugh. So greedy. What\’s even worse is pocket 9s is pretty much what I put him on … possibly the nut flush draw, but probably pocket 9s or 10s … even before the river hit. When it did, I quickly assessed the sitch and decided he didn\’t have the straight flush, but then I just pretended that 99 also was unlikely. Pretending can\’t generally be the right move. How hard, really, in wild-crazy shorthanded NL, should it have been to just call his first bet on the chance that he did indeed hit his two-outer?
* As I say this stuff, I really do believe it, but it really just doesn\’t sound like it should be right.
Textual hand history below:
PokerStars Game #21824487276: Hold\’em No Limit ($2/$4) – 2008/11/07 0:44:41 ET
Table \’Grogler II\’ 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: StitzDogg ($400 in chips)
Seat 3: RiverDan72 ($355.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Sunking25 ($136 in chips)
Seat 5: MrteddyKGB ($470 in chips)
Seat 6: TheKaas ($887.40 in chips)
MrteddyKGB: posts small blind $2
TheKaas: posts big blind $4
arfur: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RiverDan72 [6h 8s]
StitzDogg: folds
RiverDan72: calls $4
Sunking25: folds
MrteddyKGB: calls $2
TheKaas: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h 6s 5c]
MrteddyKGB: bets $8
TheKaas: folds
RiverDan72: raises $20 to $28
MrteddyKGB: calls $20
*** TURN *** [8h 6s 5c] [8c]
MrteddyKGB: checks
RiverDan72: checks
*** RIVER *** [8h 6s 5c 8c] [9c]
MrteddyKGB: bets $20
RiverDan72: raises $52 to $72
MrteddyKGB: raises $366 to $438 and is all-in
RiverDan72: calls $251.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($114.50) returned to MrteddyKGB
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrteddyKGB: shows [9s 9h] (a full house, Nines full of Eights)
RiverDan72: mucks hand
MrteddyKGB collected $713 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $715 | Rake $2
Board [8h 6s 5c 8c 9c]
Seat 1: StitzDogg folded before Flop (didn\’t bet)
Seat 3: RiverDan72 mucked [6h 8s]
Seat 4: Sunking25 (button) folded before Flop (didn\’t bet)
Seat 5: MrteddyKGB (small blind) showed [9s 9h] and won ($713) with a full house, Nines full of Eights
Seat 6: TheKaas (big blind) folded on the Flop
