You know how you can play Texas Hold ‘em for hours and just get a little above break-even or a little below break-even and then all of a sudden you have one big hand and it makes or breaks your entire day? Usually mine is with pocket Kings. So here’s what happened yesterday:
$10 double board bomb pot and I am on the button with pocket Kings. The flop on top is Jack high rainbow and the flop on the bottom is Ace King Jack with two clubs. The loose black guy in seat five opens for $20 and this is followed by a raise to $40 from the Latino guy in the eight seat. I’m thinking I have to make these guys pay to draw that flush or straight (except, of course Q-10 where I’m behind but with outs to a Boat) and while I’m probably ahead on both boards, it’s just the kind of thing where I might be able to find a way to lose on both of them. Like to two pair on the top and somebody catching a flush or a straight on the bottom so of course I shove it all in. The black guy calls for about a $250 and the Latino guy calls for about $200. The board paired on top and the bottom ran out Club, Club. I’m thinking I’m dead to any club on the bottom and whatever Trips on top. They turn over their hands and neither has a Club. Whew! They both had pair/straight draws on top and bottom and bricked. I had them both covered and all the chips came my way.
Then I spent the next couple of hours C-betting the flop, checking the turn and bluffing the river and getting called. But I still walked away with most of my profits from the one big hand. No Limit Hold ‘em in a nutshell.
I suppose this is the way that the poker gods get me back to even from the day a while ago when I had the best of it on both boards after the flop and my opponent caught a flush on the top and went runner-runner for another flush on the bottom.
