When I played poker

Life was good, we were young, in Vegas, and kicking the s**t out of the locals in the 4-8 Hold 'Em game at the Plaza.

I just had my unbeaten streak of PokerStars SNGs snapped, when I had kings. It went like this: Kings in middle position, with two limpers. So I raised it up to 5x the BB, and four players stayed to see the flop. I wasn't very happy about playing my kings in a multi-way pot, until the flop came Q-6-2 rainbow. I figured one of these guys paired his queen, but figured I would have been re-raised pre-flop if any of them held QQ, so I was pretty sure I was in the lead.

An early position player made a very small bet, it was folded to me, and I popped him back about 3x. It was folded to the BB, who immediately went all-in. I figured that he didn't have a set, and put him on AQ, or QJ. (It was very unlikely that he had KQ since I already had the other two kings, but even if he did, I was still ahead.) He had me covered, so I called for the rest of my chips . . . and I was moderately happy when he turned up QJ. "Hooray for my great read," I thought. "Now here comes the Jack."

Sure enough, he caught a jack on the turn. Dave: shows [Qd Js] (two pair, Queens and Jacks). Judge: shows [Kh Ks] (a pair of Kings). Judge said, "doh". Dave collected 2700 from pot. Judge said, "s**t".

I had a great run there for a little while, including a few times when I was way behind on the flop, and made runner-runner to suck out when I really should have lost. That's poker.

Posted By: The Judge, Oct 6, 16:58:24