Had an utterly disgusting night tonight. About four orbits in, I'm winning £50, I've got a great table and I'm feeling confident. We look down at the
in a limped pot and check from the big blind. Unfortunately we don't really improve and we still have ten high on the flop on
. I stone cold bluff £4 into £6 and two players make the correct call. They then both get incredibly unlucky as I somehow hit the
on the turn. I make it £15, villain #1 calls and the drunk businessman from Switzerland quickly makes it £35. Yum yum. I make quite a performance before making the 3bet to £85. Villain #1 folds, Swisstard instaships, I make the instacall. Before the words "good call" can completely leave his mouth, the
hits the river and he slaps the
onto the felt. I do a bit of a chunder. He's proudly grinning to himself right now, "straight to the jack," he proclaims in a smarmy fashion, "that's poker." If that's poker then I don't know
what I've been doing for the past year. I think I took it pretty well. Could really have done with holding there, though...
... Or holding with queen and queen versus Mitch's ace and king. Mitch flopped toppest pair and turned toppest two pair. We did not hold...
... Nor did we hold with
from the big on
, although we didn't get stacked here. Villain was kind enough to have two jacks and not a king with a jack when the
hit the river. Chop up a big one. At least we didn't lose this time...
... Unlike when we find
on the button in a straddled pot when it looks like were probably tilting (which we're somehow not, despite being stuck about 20% of our net wealth for the evening). UTG limps, +1 makes it £15. We make it £41 and he snap shoves for £130. We do a little cry because we know what's coming next and call it off.
sir? Nice hand. Flopped us dead on
sir? What a life.
Over the course of the rest of the night, we starting climbing out of the hole to where we could at least see daylight and finished down £320 after being in for £900. Then Rastafish was legendary enough to get a round of drinks in for the whole club like a hero. At least things went from bad to better, but to sum tonight up in one word: brutal.
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