a st. patrick's day win

Yesterday's Monday Night Game was another great one for me. A surprising amount of players got some brutal beats in the tournament, and fortunately I was able to spike a nine on the flop for a set of trips against Marc's pocket kings and double my chips early, avoiding the pressure of the blinds for a while.

Marc, who is usually the perpetrator of bad beats rather than the recipient, was cold-decked several times during the tournament. Not only were his kings cracked by my nines, but later in the tournament he doubled Chris up, giving up the chip lead he held all evening and putting Chris behind a monster stack. This occurred when again Marc held the kings! This time, his opponent held KJ of clubs and made a flush (Marc was over 85% to win the hand preflop). Perhaps even more harsh was the hand that eliminated Marc in third place, when he held the AA and got all-in with top set on the flop, only to see his opponent call him with a ten-high flush draw, and rather than hit the flush, Chris backdoored a straight against him.

The final hand occurred between Chris and I:

ME:

CHRIS:

BOARD