The very next night (again at Jokers) I ended up getting beat pretty badly in a hand and was short stacked. It's funny how I can never remember the hand that got me short stacked in the first place . . . only the one that eventually takes me out.
A very nice guy named Mike had lost quite a lot of his chips too. In his very next hand he went all-in, tossing his chips in the middle like he just didn't care. I was in desparation mode myself and saw an ace (not the 2nd card) and went all in too, thinking he was just ticked off. He ended up having a playable Q-J but I had A-5 so I was happy to see I was ahead. Naturally, however, the flop gave him an open-ended straight draw and he hit it on the river. Great googly moogly.
I can't honestly complain too much however because I myself actually hit an open-ended straight draw earlier in the tournament, which I rarely do anymore, so it really surprised me even though hitting the damned thing was what I wanted.
I raised to 150 under the gun (best place to bluff) with my beloved 7-2 offsuit. Nadine re-raised to 500. Two or three others called so I did too. There was NOTHING for my hand on the flop and I checked. The flop was A-5-4 rainbow. Nadine bet 1,500. Completly intending to check raise her on the turn & try to steal the pot, I called the bet. The turn was a 6 and gave me an open-ended straight draw. Good grief. I checked again. She bet 2,500 I think. I called again. The river was a 3 and I hit the damned straight. I actually had a 7-card straight from the A to the 7 - LOL.
Believe it or not, I checked again. My reasoning was that I honestly did not believe Nadine had anything except maybe an ace or a medium pair. I didn't think she would call me with what was on the board because I only needed one card to make a straight. She surprised me by betting 3,000. The board wasn't paired or flushed and I wasn't worried about it, so I shoved my last 8,475 in the pot and went all-in saying, "You're going to hate me." The guy sitting next to her looked at me and smiled. He knew what I had. It was too funny.
Nadine thought for quite a while. She had me more than covered. She finally called and showed a set of 5s. OMG. She couldn't believe it!
So, open-ended straights . . . nemesis or not? I really do not hit them very often. Give me a good gut-shot any day of the week. :)
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open end straights and flush draws are my nemesis. can't hit em and opponents can's miss. gutshots are impossible for me....don't even try any more....give an opponent 1,2,3 or 4 outs and they are positively "golden". why is this? not saying i "never" suck out, but 8 out of 10 times i do not need to as usually getting chips in with the best of it. played poker too late last night....online "fun" play money. buy in was 10,000, came in 4th for almost 100K win. led the entire tournament and just got tired of playing at 1:30 a.m. so played back hard at raisers...... biggest hand of the night JJ with a huge stack, I got it all in against 3 callers, one with almost my stack of 20K. Hit a jack on flop & got all of them, including 7/3 (the big stack) and AK suited and small pair.
Comment on your comment about my pocket 5's. I do agree that "sometimes you just have to gamble" and this was a sweet volume pot to chip up on. However, doing the "math" on this one, I still feel it was a good fold. There was a total of 5100 in the pot, including my small and the big blind. I was getting only 3.5 to one odds on my money for a 7.5 to one draw (assuming that if I hit my set that it is good. As it was, i was facing literally every face card in the deck against me, and possibly a pocket pair larger than 5's. According to my pocket poker calculator I was no better than 1 to 4 to win...about even money. Just thought there were better opportunities to shove with some "shove equity" available. My A/5 opportunity came the next hand, and I was much more likely to win against 2 random blind hands...just unluckily ran into a monster. I am in town this week, did well at Moose in a couple of hours, +$125. :)
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