Girl Club Poker

Wow gone all in on a Full House and still lost!
It’s just one of those things that you just can’t predict, or certainly not with any great accuracy anyway. I’m playing poker at a site that I really like and have the cards that dreams are made of and still manage to lose, not because of the way in which I played, or the fact that I didn’t read the game, but because the other guy (and annoyingly it was a guy) had the same hand as me only better, go figure!

This is how the game was played;
5 players in the game and my pre-flop cards were a pair of 6’s (heats, Diamonds), so I match the big blind and call on $10. Two of the other players fold and me and the two remaining all waiting for the flop.

Flop cards dealt are 6 Spades, 2 Hearts and Jack Spades, so the bets are upped to $15 and we all match. As you can imagine, I am now holding trip 6’s and the game is on.

The turn is where it started to get exciting as the next card was a Jack Hearts and the others two check, so I raise to $20 and they match. OK at this point holding a Full House 6’s over Jack’s after the turn is a nice place to be, especially when the others at the table haven’t raised and it doesn’t look like the game is going any other way than mine. 60
The river was a very mellow 10 Clubs, which started the betting with both my competitors and the anti was raised to $30, which I matched and raised by $30. They matched too.

OK, quick recap, the tabled cards are 6 Spades, 2 Hearts and Jack Spades, Jack Hearts, 10 Clubs. Using my powers of deduction and trying to work out what could have been dealt and that fact that the raising hadn’t been too enthusiastic in comparison to other games, I came up with the conclusion that I was up against a possible two pair or trip Jacks, which I could beat, so I pressed on with glee in my heart.

The reveal, all bets placed and $315 on the table and I look round to see that in one part I was spot on and one of the hands was triple Jacks, with his starting hand being Jack Clubs, Ace Spades. Then I laid down my Full House and revelled in the delight of having played a great hand of Poker, only to find out that the actual winner of this hand wasn’t me, but the very smug gentleman to my right with a Full House 10’s over Jacks. His starting hand had been 10 Hearts, 10 spades and right up to the River, all he had was two pair.
OK, the pot was only $315 but the fact that I had done everything right and had great cards from the start, left me feeling a little venerable and to be honest pee’d off. This was me playing my game as well as I could and still lost due to the very last card played.

I have since gone over the game time and time and again, have laid out the cards and re-run the hand from start to finish and the only way that I can see that I could have pushed the issue, would have been after the turn, where I could have upped the pot and gone for gold, which might have caused the player with pocket 10’s to fold as he only had 2 pair at that stage, but the guy with trip Jacks would have been full of confidence and I could have nailed him.

I know that hind sight is a great thing, but I have a new respect for Bad Beat games where at least I will get something for the hand that I lost on. Even if it is just recognition for playing what turned out to be a great game. So now the lesson has been learnt and I know that it just isn’t over until the last card has been played. My remedy is to try Bad Beat poker at Poker Host, as they always reward the way that the game has been played, so you get the reward you deserve even though you didn’t deliver that killer hand.