suck day. good night.
wow. i've had a pretty good end to what seemed like was going to be a suck day.
got to see an absolutely gorgeous sunset on my way home. it was breathtaking. the kind of sunset that moves you to call everyone you know because you want to share with them its beauty.
the sky was ablaze in treasured tones of passion and glory; casting it's fiery hues on the clouds, on buildings, the mountains in the distance. and i imagined this was what a heart exploding with love might look like.
in an attempt to capture the moment forever, i snapped a few pictures of it. hopefully i'll get around to posting them.
then - i won the kitty in culver city!!! woo hooo! i heeded my silly poker superstitions. wore the lucky green cat shirt. watched at least one great hand of poker on one of the many poker shows out there. tonight i happened to watch a killer hand. paul darden vs. gus hansen in the WPT (World Poker Tour) "bad boys of poker" night. darden had about $30k in chips, hansen was the chip leader. darden puts in half his chips with 10d or h and 8s. hansen has A6o. hansen puts darden all-in. darden calls. the flop comes something like 567 all spades. so darden's looking pretty happy, he's got an open-ended straight draw, flush draw, and that rare, ever-elusive straight flush. the turn shows 4s. he's made his fucking straight flush and doubles up. river is a 4h. crazy hand. and after seeing this i get really excited about tonight even though i'm fucking tired as hell.
i ended up more than doubling my money tonight with $13.50. i gotta say it felt pretty good winning the big pots, raking in all those chips, and making nice even stacks with them. a lot of the time when i'm up i start to worry about playing hands because i don't want to give back what i've won. but i was getting pretty good starting hands. a couple times i had cowboys (granted, i lost with one of the pairs to glyphic who pulled out a flush. dammit). but i was also getting things like KJ, KQ suited, big slick, middle pocket pairs that hit a set on the flop. and one of my favorite hands of the night was taking in a giant pot with two callers seeing me to the river where i made a full house on the turn - aces full of queens. penquin had the nut flush and mike mucked. it was pretty awesome. i don't think i've ever won this big with hold 'em before (excluding my second place showing at the last poker tourney). so it felt really fucking nice.
yeah, it really did make my day.
and with that, that's a good night!
3 Comments:
Mike didn't muck. Here's how the hand went down (the betting might be slightly off, since I don't really remember where the button was):
Flop: [2 A Q]
Checks to me, I bet with a medium ace, you, Mike, and Cory call.
Turn: [2 A Q] [Q]
Checks to me, I check, you bet, Mike and Cory call, I fold, figuring you nutty people either had a better kicker or stayed in on second pair.
River: [2 A Q] [Q] [2]
Check to Eris, Eris bets, Mike raises, Cory raises, Eris caps, Mike calls, Cory calls.
Eris shows a full house, queens full of aces.
Mike shows a full house, queens full of twos.
Cory shows a flush, ace high.
Eris gloats like a smug b*tch.
I don't think anyone pegged you on holding AQ since you slowplayed the flop. Good thing I got out of this train wreck early on.
I didn't catch very many good cards all night... there were three hands that I could have won with, had I seen the flop, but only one that I had actually considered playing: QXs UTG. Flop would have been my flush, and Jay's semi-bluff got no callers. Damn.
glyphic, you sore loser. where are my props for taking down such a huge pot by slow playing my 2-pair turned full house?
hmph.
at least i was a smug b*tch with a lot of chips.
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