my lucksack makes my friends ill

[Etaipo]

seemingly, i tend to reaaaaally flub it in the big pots, often making donkey calls when i full well know i'm beat, and most of the time, come out ahead?

PokerStars Game #11102378126: Tournament #56304531, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2007/07/23 - 23:30:45 (ET)
Table '56304531 14' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: cashmeout222 (1155 in chips)
Seat 3: imadreamer74 (2295 in chips)
Seat 4: PRbigFish (1255 in chips)
Seat 5: BOZZY22 (1185 in chips)
Seat 6: FunStar23 (2960 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 7: DanaMMania (2570 in chips)
Seat 8: daisyduke09 (665 in chips)
Seat 9: Etaipo (3985 in chips)
cashmeout222: posts small blind 15
imadreamer74: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Etaipo [Jc Js]
PRbigFish: folds
BOZZY22: raises 60 to 90
FunStar23: folds
DanaMMania: calls 90
daisyduke09: folds
FunStar23 has returned
Etaipo: raises 260 to 350
cashmeout222: folds
imadreamer74: raises 1945 to 2295 and is all-in
BOZZY22: folds
DanaMMania: folds
Etaipo: calls 1945
*** FLOP *** [Jd Jh 9d]
*** TURN *** [Jd Jh 9d] [7c]
Etaipo said, "omg"
*** RIVER *** [Jd Jh 9d 7c] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
imadreamer74: shows [Ad Ac] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
Etaipo: shows [Jc Js] (four of a kind, Jacks)
Etaipo collected 4785 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4785 | Rake 0
Board [Jd Jh 9d 7c 9s]
Seat 3: imadreamer74 (big blind) showed [Ad Ac] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 9: Etaipo (button) showed [Jc Js] and won (4785) with four of a kind, Jacks


this is not confined to my online anti-doom-switch-plug-in either. witness, my single biggest [censored] up at the table, ever...and it happened this weekend:

live $1/$2 NLHE B&M, both villain and hero on ~60 (starting stacks). villain and hero are also good friends, work buddies, and play at the same home game, which makes the story even sweeter

hero limps utg w/ 2 black 8's

folded to villain who raises to $12, strangely it's folded to hero who calls.

flop is q 10 10, two hearts. check, bet $12, call. hero is pretty sure it's AK he's up against.

turn is another queen. check, all in for $36. hero is now almost positive it's ak and calls, proudly tabling the 8's, and sure enough, there's ak.

i let out a quiet "yessssss" that would have made napoleon dynamite proud.

the dealer puts an 8 up for the river, and i say "just for good measur......"...and slowly, only after the pot is already getting pushed in my direction, the wheels start turning..

i look over at villain, who is quietly shaking his head in disgust, and realize the table is in stunned silence.

"i guess that'll do wonders for my table image, huh?"

it was beautiful.

bonus brag: the only time my aces have gotten cracked in live games since the new year was the one time i slow played them.


i *heart* poker.

my next downswing is going to be bruuuutal. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]