I headed out to the Hard Rock tonight where I lost my first buy-in at a table-full of lousy players. I managed to play down to their level and I deserved to lose. But, I knew I could win it back, so I bought-in again and the cards froze up.
So, when I heard the announcement for one seat left in a 6-seat turbo sit-n-go, I went to take it. The tourney buy-in cleaned me out but it was OK since I – literally – ran the table. I took out all five of the other players and the tournament prize put me very close to even for the night.
I took the prize back to the cash tables and sat down with it… and in the first hand found pocket 5s. Someone raised to $5 and someone re=raised to $20. I called.
There were four of us in the pot and the flop came 259 rainbow. First position checked, second position (the original raiser) bet all-in and the third player (the re-raise) re-raised all-in.
I was holding middle set and couldn’t credit either of them with 99 so I called all my chips. When we showed our hands, the other two were QQ and AA and the river card came an Ace to give him top set. I lost my entire buy-in on the first hand.
Ugh.
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