For My Legions of Fans

Hi Dr. Phil.  Since you so graciously requested a blog entry . . . I went to play live at the Crazy Moose on Halloween night after my 15-year old granddaughter took the younger grandchildren in tow and said I should go have fun. 

I had recently read Dr. Phil's blog about hands he hates and I agree with most if not all of those hands.  I was bound and determined to ignore Q-10, K-9, etc.  Unfortunately, or may fortunately as it turns out . . . these hands did not ignore me.  The very first hand I got was Q-10 offsuit in an unraised pot and I was in the cut-off so I played it.  I flopped the nut straight. 

The entire night was like that.  I was pretty good and didn't call any raises with my trouble hands except once.  I raised to $6 with A-10 on the button and got re-raised to $12 and called.  I flopped 2 pair and went on to get the midnight high hand AAA1010.  Happy face.  Most of the time, however, I was folding 6-9 suited and 7-8 and Q-9, etc., etc., etc. 

It was interesting that almost every time I had Q-10 or K-9 (and a couple of K-Js) I was in an unraised pot and won the hand almost every time.  Sometimes these crappy hands just follow you around and there's nothing you can do about it and you definitely have to "play your heater".  It's hard to be good when the junk is winning.  I went home with a profit of $195 so there is something to be said for junk hands - at least once in a while!