Friday, April 18, 2008

set over set

Cash game tonight at the office - it went okay for me (up $31), but Lee and Dale took a somewhat severe beating in the game. In fact, Lee got his money in in spots that you couldn't possibly blame him for, but got sucked out on or was beat to begin with. In one pot, he flopped middle set of queens on a board of , and his opponent Justin, who held the T9 of, you guessed it, spades, got all-in against him (having Lee covered by a reasonable amount). When the board failed to fill or quad up Lee's hand, he was out another buy-in.

Perhaps worse was the one-outer beat he took from Marc earlier in the evening. Marc put the live $1 straddle on, and three players limped to Lee on the button, who made it $6 to go. Eric folded his small blind and I looked down at the on the big blind. Knowing that this was (A) marginal, (B) I was out of position, and (C) I had four players yet to act behind me, I mucked the hand. Marc then proceeded to raise it to double Lee's bet, or $12. The limpers all folded, and Lee went all-in for about $8 or $10 on top of the $12. He showed down the ace-king, and Marc showed down two red eights. This was interesting, since I had folded outs for both of the relevant hands. It became even more relevant when the flop brought the king of hearts, and the turn blanked. But lo and behold, drawing to one out in the deck, Marc hit the last eight on fifth street, stacking Lee and foreshadowing the rest of the evening.
Tonight's Bad Beat Story:
JUSTIN : 77
JOHN : QQ
FLOP: 7 T Q (set over set!)
TURN : 8
RIVER : 7

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