Texas Holdem Poker Blog

May 30, 2005

Playing AKs.....

I played some Texas Holdem last night at the club in a small freeze out tournament. For most of the night I got garbage for hands. I won a small pot playing 24s when I hit the flop for a flush.... I normally would never consider playing that hand, but they let me limp at a low blind rate! ;-)

Got pocket aces just before we merged to the final table, and took a nice sized pot to bring me over 4K going into the final. The average stack at that point was about 5100.

Unfortunately, I really didnt see much in the way of hands at the final table, for over an hour. I finally got dealt AQs, and called a 2x raise to see the flop. The flop came A rag rag, and I pushed my last 2400 chips in. Fortunately, the Big stack had A rag ( not matching ) and called me thinking I was making a short stack move! I doubled up, and was back over 6K in chips....

NOW.. the trouble hand for me......

I get AKs ( Diamonds ) in the big blind, and have two limpers in front of me.... I did not raise.... THAT was a mistake, but I've really had poor luck with big slick, and wanted to see if I hit anything before getting involved.

The flop came Jd Td 9c.... Four to a flush, a gut shot to a Royal, a gut shot to a straight! The button pushed for 2500..... I thought for a few, but figured I had 13 outs at LEAST. He had Pocket Q's.

I have 19 outs! ANY q, ANY A, ANY K, ANY DIAMOND......

Turn and river were rag rag spades..... now I'm down to 3K....

Played a few more hands and get Pocket 8's under the gun, again in the big blind. The button makes it 3x ( 1600 ), the small calls, and I push my 2K. They both have to call, as it's only another 375 for them to see the flop. Flop comes K 4 5 rainbow..... it's checked. Turn comes another 5.. it's checked down.... River comes a 4... it's checked..... river hits the original raiser who made his wheel......

THRID time in two tournaments I get wacked with Pocket 8's!

Posted by fatbill at May 30, 2005 08:00 AM

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