ONLINE MISERY
By: Matt F.
I like to play a lot of online poker, and usually every 3 weeks or so me and 15 or so other buddies of mine get together to play a tourny for a 50 dollars with a 50 dollar reuy.
I almost always get first or second in these, all of my friends think I’m too good and sometimes don’t even want to come if I’m there, but usually they come anyways.
So we had one on a Friday and once again i won and took home 600 dollars, and on the way home I was thinking I truely am really good at poker. So i get the idea to play a high stakes ring game on my favorite poker site, pokerroom. I almost never play in games more than 100, actually only twice did i play in tournys for 140 online.
So i made a deposit into pokerroom for 600 and sat at one of their higher stakes ring games with 10/20 blinds and I do exceptional well in the first 20 minutes, I have 3000 dollars!.. I was so excited because i just turned 50 dollars into 3000. Soon a new player came into the game with 4000.
On the first hand he was there I was dealt QQ he makes a raise of 400. I have no idea if hes aggresive or tight, but that doesn’t matter yet because I still have a great hand so i call.
flop: A 6 Q
So now im excited figuring he has a hand like AK.
On my laptop (the computer im using) the mouse is a pad that you scroll your finger over to move and if you double click the pad then it clicks on watever the cursor is over, so im anxiously moveing the cursor around in circles waiting for my opponent to make his move and while doing this I guess i accidently double clicked the mouse pad on the fold button that they for you to decide what you will do when its your turn, so he goes all-in and i folded on accident.
I was so mad but that was forgotten as on the next hand i was dealt KK and the same guy made another bet of 400 so i call trying to trap him, because now I’m pretty sure hes aggresive so I will be able to induce a bluff.
Flop: K 10 10
He raises 1000
I call hoping he has a 10 or just an ace so I can beat him out of the pot with a full house.
Turn: K
He goes all-in.. Im jumping in joy now and obviously I call
He turns over J spades and Q spades.. now I realize that he has a royal flush draw becuase the king on the turn and one of the tens were spades, and lucky he didn’t get his royal flush..
But isn’t this a bad beat story…
River: 9 spades
Yeah, instead of his royal flush he got a straight flush to leave me with a losing hand of quads..
I was so angry I stood up and hit the wall with the palm of my hand.
So instead of winning 5500 dollars I lose 50…
Poker.. what are you gunna do.
