All's fair in love, war and poker. They all fucking hurt though ...
Yes, for the second month on the bounce I've lost out at RH Poker night. I'm not too disappointed (that's a lie) because I think it was equal measures of bad luck and bad play. Essentially two hands took me from about £14 up to -£10 down and packing my bags. Both were Full Houses, both against Tom.
#1 - I had the full house (6s full of Jacks i think) and raised him all-in. He called quicky and flipped over the 4th 6. Rats. Unlucky.
#2 - I had 8,6 and the board showed 3,3,6,3 after the turn. I raised £5. Tom quickly re-raised a further £7 putting me all-in. (*Here comes the mistake*) I called. Unblinkingly. Didn't give a thought to what he might have. Thought my 6 was good. But sadly he turned over pocket Aces and my days were numbered.
What I should have done, obviously, is paused to think. Had I done so, I would have realised that Tom knows that I wouldn't raise a fiver with cock all. So I should have known he either had the missing 3 or that he had a decent pocket pair. But I didn't stop myself in time and it cost me dear.
Ah well - lessons learned. I caught myself nearly doing the same thing online the other night too but managed to pulled back from the brink and lay the hand down. Lets hope I can commit it to muscle memory before I fund anyone else's next night out.
So to the rest of the crew: Jimmy played the usual solid game but came out up instead of down for a change. Dan N had an early lead and held onto a good portion of it for most of the night. Ryan had a nice streak near the end of the night but not enough to cover his early losses ... and I honestly didn't see DP play a hand all night. Might have to give him some pointers - for a small price obviously :D
So, to the standings:
TomK
Fish
DanN
Phil
Mike
Pace
Ryan
+£25
+£8
+£5
-£3
-£10
-£10
-£15
