I got hand, baby
Poker hand from last night. Loose table. I’ve not hit a hand all night except the very first hand I played. I get absolutely nothing playable for an hour and a half. Creates the image that I am a much tighter player than I really am. I am a bit bored and decide it’s time to play a hand no matter what it is. I get:
5♥4♣
Crappy hand. I’m first to act. I raise it up to six times the big blind. Two callers and the button raises it to 12 times the big blind. It comes to me. I move my whole stack in the middle. The callers fold. The button thinks for a long time and says You’ve not played all night. You must have me beat. He folds and flips his cards over:
A♦K♦
Stupid play on my part, really. But it worked out. Remember kids: Don’t play poker when bored.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I remembered a good quote from Judge Bork’s book about boredom being a valuable emotion. A quick google search gave this insightful and valuable look at boredom when Judge Bork was on C-SPAN’s Booknotes discussing his book.
Sometimes you go all in on a 5-4 off suit.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Would have been interesting to see what the flop-turn-river were. I had my pocket aces cracked by a guy (short stacked) pushing all in preemptively with 6-3 unsuited and hitting a gutshot straight on the turn just the other night. I flopped quad 2’s on somebodies pocket Kings later on, but it didn’t make me happy.