Re: 3:10 To Yuma
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And for all you Angelinos, that was one helluva rain last night, wasn't it?
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I only had a passing glance at the reality of Friday night's rain since I was inside a card barn. Then the next day I saw one of the oddest rain showers ever and it was at another barn of course.
As I drove into the Hustler's parking lot (everything geographic on these forums should be in relation to a cardroom or casino) I could see blue sky with scattered clouds in every direction. But one of the clouds was very small, very dark and extremely fast moving. It settled over the Hustler and created an intense downpour which kept me in my car for three minutes. The edges of the entire cloud would easily fit inside the parking lot perimeter; everywhere else the clouds were still puffy white with lots of blue sky in between. Keep in mind until the age of 35 I had been on the water or offshore most of my years (racing sailing and offshore hard weather deliveries of fast sailing yachts) so I've seen a lot of weird weather up close. But I never saw a raincloud so intense yet small.
I should have taken it as an omen. In a great game I was card dead for seven hours but through sheer determination built up my stack anyway in the 5-5 blind NL. Late in the session I finally built a perfect sized pot with a 3X mini-raise of a straddle with a middle pair (Matt Flynn/Sunny Mehta/Ed Miller would be proud of my SPR - about 10-1). Against my two opponents I flop a set of eights on a rainbow, mostly disconnected board (Q-8-6) and bet almost pot. I get called in two spots. The turn comes a suited jack. BB bets out potish ($200). I put him on QJ or 66. Original limper makes it $500; I'm concerned about him hitting a straight but his range and aggression is big so a smaller set, draw or the queen jack our equally likely. I commit and push. He had hit the straight and I don't redraw. I'm felted.
Since I would have to rebuy short and had put in a long frustrating day I decided to leave. The sky was clear when I left.
~ Rick
PS to Mods: No problem with me if you delete this mostly beat story; I'm human and had to get it out of my system. But do beware of card-room sized dark clouds.
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