Posted by Dr Fro 6:42 AM

Oh I'm happy as Christmas...all wrapped to be seen

I am typically pretty Stoic in response to ups and downs in poker. I rarely get too upset or excited at the table, and when I do, it isn't for long. But I am just absolutely giddy about last night…

A bit of history: I moved all my Party Poker and Planet Poker money to Neteller and then $100 from Neteller to Poker.com about 2.5 months ago. That $100 got to $130 over 2.5 months (that means earning 66 cents a day!). Last night I sat down at a 2-man $0.50-$1.00 NL HE table (actually I sat at two tables simultaneously, but nothing of interest happened at the 10-man table) and played against a dude for about 45 minutes.

After about 40 minutes of heads-up action, I had played 72 hands and won a mere 26 hands. In that span, dude got AA twice, flopped THREE straights and TWICE made a higher flush than my flush. Clearly, it was an absolute disaster. But, I am much better at protecting my stack during terrible runs than I used to be, and I am quite proud of the fact that I managed to keep $55 of my $100 buy-in during this stretch.

Baby Dr Fro's feeding was going to be over soon and Mrs. Dr Fro would be coming downstairs to hang out with me, so I only had about 5 more minutes of play.

I quickly won 4 consecutive medium-sized hands and doubled my stack to $110. Then, I got AA. We re-raised each other several times pre-flop and I eventually suspected he had KK. We were both all in and, lo and behold, he had KK. I have been on the ass end of this situation (that is, having KK) many times, two of which I have described on this humble blog. I have also had the AA cracked by KK more than once. Well, this time, it worked out the way it should: the Aces held up, and I doubled up when I scooped the pot of $220.

I have had bigger wins that I have taken more or less in stride in the past, but this one just left me feeling downright giddy. It seemed to solve many frustrations for me:

• a lingering frustration over my KK going up against AA in Vegas
• a lingering frustration over my KK going up against AA against ARH
• a frustration at my inability to win any more than $30 cumulatively over the past 2.5 months.

Well, I'm feeling better now!

1 Comment(s):

Posted by  Junelli, at 2:10 PM, December 07, 2006  

You should talk to Morris about KK. He has had it cracked, and shoved up his arse, on numerous occasions.

The worst was his KK vs. AK when they got it all in preflop and the flop had 2 aces.

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