Knocked out of a tournament with back to back Aces
March 28th, 2008
I don’t feel like talking about this for too long, but I couldn’t just ignore this one on the blog as it has never ever happened to me before and I am begging to the Lord that it will never ever happen to me again in the future.
I was in the chip lead of a LIVE tournament (€50 freeze-out, no limit Hold’em) with 16 players left. Two tables. I was dealt aces on the button and raised it up 3BB. My opponent, somewhat middle-stacked went all in behind me and I called him down. He had KQ suited and made his flush on the turn. I had the ace for his flush, but the river didn’t do me justice.
That was bad. But the hand after, I got aces again.
I raised it up again in late position (I was no longer chip leader, but was still above average) and one of the players that covered me re-raised me the to about 12BB. I insta-shoved hoping he’d just lay it down giving me a decent pot. He called though. He had pocket sevens and told me “I thought you were steaming”. I was steaming, but that’s something else, right. Anyway; dude spikes a seven right on the flop…
I was so sick I almost threw up, especially when the sevens guy started declaring how awesome that was and how bad I played my aces knowing he would call me thinking I was steaming. No sh*t sherlock, as if I minded a call by someone 4-to-1 behind.
Donkball ended up winning the thing. Pretty bad freaking beat.