The New Road

Sweet suck-out

Last night was our weekly poker night. I've been on a rush of bad luck lately so I wasn't really looking forward to it. Last week was the worst. Every time I had something high the cards were all low and vice versa. Our table plays kinda loose, so you really have to have the cards most of the time.

When Winsha and Rebecca got to the house Megan was still going down. But Mel was there so the four of us, minus Lori, started the game. Everybody came in for the usual $10. Rebecca took the first hand for around $1.50 from each of us. On the next hand I got an Ace-10. Nice card, so I raised it up a little. Everybody stayed in.

The flop came out Ace-2-10. Sweet! So I had two pair. It rolled around to Winsha to bet. She put in $2, and I was fine with that. Two pair usually wins at our table. Rebecca and Mel dropped folded. Another blank, I think a Jack, came out on fourth street. Winsha was in for another two. At this point I had a gut check because Winsha is a tight player, and I didn't have anywhere near the nut. The nut at this point was three Aces. Then three Jacks, three tens, three twos, two pair Aces and Jacks, and finally my hand Aces and tens. So I had only the sixth best hand. But I figured that I could buy back in. Even if this was just the second hand.

On fifth street my mind exploded as another Ace came out. Now I had a full house. Winsha came back with another $2 and I came back with all -in. She quickly responded by pushing her whole stack in. And then she flipped... two tens. Giving here an Ace-Ace-10-10-10 full house, which heart-brakingly lost to my Ace-Ace-Ace-10-10 full house. She had me before the flop, after the flop and after fourth street. Just not at the end.

A lovely suck-out victory that I should be ashamed with if I weren't so happy about it. There actually were two nuts before the nut full house, four aces and four tens. But hey, a win is a win.

At the end of the night I was tripled up from my buy-in and I know at least this little bad luck rush is over.