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ondik
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Czech Republic2908 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 02:27:25
January 29 2009 02:23 GMT
#1
Post-exam time. I'm trying to gather my high school friends to have some fun together. We decide to go to a pub and play a poker tournament.

I play poker just occassionaly, so do they, but we enjoy it and always have lot of fun. Buy-in isn't any big, but we aren't there for making money.

As we start I feel in good condition (or beers do it). Watching Daniel Negreanu's precise play, Gus Hansen's manliness and Phil Hellmuth's inappropriate behaviour whole last night sets me in right poker mood.

Inspirated by Gus I start rather aggressively and lose about 1/5 of my chips early on, feeling the same way as if I was trying to pull out some pro starcraft strategy.

Nevertheless, it gives me few information about my opponents and how they are playing tonight. I'm slowly getting back my chips having some really good hands (A to 5 straight) as well as nicely performed blufs and semi-blufs.

We are now sitting three at the table I have around 1/4 of whole chips. With the other guy who has about the same we go all-in. We both have set of eights, I'm luckily the one with ace, thus eliminating him. Twice as happy because he was probably the strongest player in the tournament and I had lost numerous heads ups to him.


So here we are, heads up. I know I'm better than my opponent, because he's relatively new to poker. With same amount of chips after I doubled up I'm pretty confident. And really, step by step I'm getting in a lead, however not safe enough. The blinds are big and single bad played hand may put me behind again.


And so the moment of truth comes.


I get King of Hearts, and some shitty card, I'm big blind. He calls, I check.

Flop: Ace of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, Jack of Hearts

With really big blinds he goes all-in.

I'm angry and don't want to fold such a promising hand. But I know he has either AQ, AJ, QJ or more likely (because has he had AQ, AJ, QJ, he would probably bet on pre-flop) two hearts. And if he has two hearts I know I should not call it.

But I say fuck it, I won't offend poker gods and I may not have another chance in my poker life so I call.

As I thought he has two hearts. Last two cards will determinate the winner.

+ Show Spoiler +
Turn: 10 of Hearts.


ROYAL FLUSH

I win the hand. I win all the chips. I win the money.

It doesn't matter though. I don't care about all this.

I'm just so fascinated by what I see on the table. The combination each poker player dreams about. In such a tense moment. Can't be described, you just have to experience it.

These are the situations when you forget everything bothering you and make you realize it's worth living for.

Life is good.


(By the way, first and only topic I made on TL before this was [OSL] Wildcard.. coincidence?)




Bisu. The one and only. // Save the cheerreaver, save the world (of SC2)
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 02:28:27
January 29 2009 02:28 GMT
#2
=)

Congrats
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 02:30:42
January 29 2009 02:30 GMT
#3
Donk call.
Grats.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
January 29 2009 02:33 GMT
#4
Lucky. You shouldn't call unless you have alot invested in the pot though.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
naonao
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States847 Posts
January 29 2009 02:34 GMT
#5
Ya, by contributing to TL you have made the poker gods happy and they have thus rewarded you.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21243 Posts
January 29 2009 02:43 GMT
#6
Hawt. I am proud of your achievements.
TranslatorBaa!
Ellis
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
247 Posts
January 29 2009 02:46 GMT
#7
How much was the pot at the end?
LordofAscension
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States589 Posts
January 29 2009 02:46 GMT
#8
What did he have?

~LoA
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BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
January 29 2009 03:12 GMT
#9
I would have loved to have seen your expression or what went through your mind when that 10 of hearts popped out
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
January 29 2009 03:26 GMT
#10
I know what this feels like, won €110 in the first poker tournament I played. Got lucky most of the way through, then when it went to heads up I got a straight flush on the 3rd last hand. ( 5-9 spades)

Haven't played for money since, figured I should quit while I was ahead
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
January 29 2009 03:28 GMT
#11
such a shit play but lucky river :D
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Antipathy
Profile Joined June 2008
United States222 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 03:33:58
January 29 2009 03:32 GMT
#12
You have the K of hearts and the A of hearts flopped which gives you a nut flush draw (even without a royal flush), why are you scared of the 2 of hearts?

EDIT: Nvm, read that wrong.
"All give some, some give all"
lOstHeaven
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada212 Posts
January 29 2009 03:37 GMT
#13
On January 29 2009 11:23 ondik wrote:
We both have set of eights,



WTF someone is cheating, there is 6 eight in the deck....anyway nice catch
Lost in Heaven
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36375 Posts
January 29 2009 03:38 GMT
#14
let me get this straight, he calls the blind, and you check in the BB, and then on the flop, in a pot that consists of 2 big blinds, he shoves what is presumably a bet that is several times the pot after flopping a flush

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Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3472 Posts
January 29 2009 04:26 GMT
#15
On January 29 2009 12:37 lOstHeaven wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2009 11:23 ondik wrote:
We both have set of eights,



WTF someone is cheating, there is 6 eight in the deck....anyway nice catch

LOL true, to the op: in poker sets are three of a kind when you have a pocket pair and catch the third on the table. So i guess you didnt had a set.
Help me! im still improving my English. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. M. G.
MoRe_mInErAls
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Canada1210 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 04:35:33
January 29 2009 04:33 GMT
#16
Unless you or he had less than 3 times the pot, that was a terrible call.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
January 29 2009 04:40 GMT
#17
@ hot_bid

haha yea you read that right.
Roxen000
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
1226 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-29 05:56:42
January 29 2009 05:56 GMT
#18
Set = Pocket pair + 1 on the board.
Trips = 1 Card in your hand, 2 cards (a pair) on the board.

I beleive that's correct, yes?
._.
food
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1951 Posts
January 29 2009 06:20 GMT
#19
reminded me of this thread
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=86867
Can someone ban this guy please? FA?
sp4rki
Profile Joined December 2008
9 Posts
January 29 2009 06:31 GMT
#20
On January 29 2009 14:56 Roxen000 wrote:
Set = Pocket pair + 1 on the board.
Trips = 1 Card in your hand, 2 cards (a pair) on the board.

I beleive that's correct, yes?


You are correct, but by actual definition its more like: Trips is having 3 cards of the same value. Two persons can have trips on any given hand. Set is having the only possible three cards for the cards value. Only one person can have a set of any given card value. That's in essence what it is. The result is that any three cards of the same value make trips, but only having a pair as hole cards makes a set if another card of that value is played on the table.

If for example you have a KK and the flop comes out A K 6 you floped a set, but at showdown the dealer calls it as "Roxen000 wins with trip K's..." (you'll never hear a dealer say "Player wins with set A's" or "Player wins with a set of A's).

tl;dr: Trips is any combination of cards with the same face value. A set is the only possible trips of a certain face value. A set is a trips, but not any trips is a set.
Dont let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
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