So, my playing schedule has been erratic the last two months (holidays, changing schedules with the kids, etc.) but for a while I was on a terrific run, so much so that I sold a million play chips for cash.
Apparently the Poker Gods didn't like that.
PokerStars Game #14172191393: Hold'em No Limit (100/200) - 2007/12/29 - 04:00:45 (ET)
Table 'Columbia III' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: uncle arty (4700 in chips)
Seat 2: coophov (50500 in chips)
Seat 3: olerivrat (46261 in chips)
Seat 4: crafty_duece (35300 in chips)
Seat 5: 2fives (84576 in chips)
Seat 6: pearl62182 (26700 in chips)
Seat 7: cary1v (76200 in chips)
Seat 8: SS.Chicago (40000 in chips)
Seat 9: phantommut (26800 in chips)
cary1v: posts small blind 100
SS.Chicago: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to phantommut [
]
phantommut: calls 200
uncle arty: calls 200
coophov: calls 200
olerivrat: calls 200
crafty_duece: raises 1000 to 1200
2fives: folds
pearl62182: folds
cary1v: folds
SS.Chicago: calls 1000
phantommut: calls 1000
uncle arty: calls 1000
coophov: calls 1000
olerivrat: folds
*** FLOP *** [
]
SS.Chicago: checks
phantommut: bets 8200
uncle arty: calls 3500 and is all-in
coophov: calls 8200
crafty_duece: calls 8200
SS.Chicago: folds
*** TURN *** [ ] [
]
phantommut: bets 17400 and is all-in
coophov: calls 17400
crafty_duece: raises 8500 to 25900 and is all-in
coophov: calls 8500
*** RIVER *** [ ] [
]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
coophov: shows [
] (a pair of Kings)
crafty_duece: shows [
] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
crafty_duece collected 17000 from side pot-2
phantommut: shows [ ] (two pair, Aces and Kings - lower kicker)
crafty_duece collected 66300 from side pot-1
uncle arty: shows [
] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
uncle arty collected 20300 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 103600 Main pot 20300. Side pot-1 66300. Side pot-2 17000. | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: uncle arty showed [ ] and won (20300) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 2: coophov showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: olerivrat folded before Flop
Seat 4: crafty_duece showed [ ] and won (83300) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 5: 2fives folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: pearl62182 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: cary1v (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: SS.Chicago (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: phantommut showed [ ] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Now, on the flop I of course figured the straight was a possibility, and I assumed Uncle Artie had it when he called all-in, but his stack was insignificant and I knew no one else had it when the rest of the motley crew just called my overbet of the pot on the flop. So I figured I was dealing with naked aces and/or flush draws.
Turn puts a non-flushy 9 out there, adding some straight possibilities to the river, but I wasn't very worried about that. I'd already decided no one had improved, the flush draw still bothered me, and let's get the drawing idiots gone now.
HA ha.
River pairs the board in Kings, counterfeiting my Aces and Tens, and the naked Ace Jack takes the big pot with a better kicker.
So that's how it's been going.
P.S. While editing this, my turned boat (Eights full of Nines) was just nuked from orbit by someone who flopped (and slow played) Eights full of Queens. The river improved him to Queens full of Eights; the PokerStars server has a twisted sense of humor.