I could have won

[BAGELBEAR]

Yesterday Tim saw that the Silverton, a smaller
off the strip casino, had a 6:00 $45 & 5 buy-in.
I decided to go over and check it out. Turned
out to be only 14 players, paid top 3. Starting
stack was 4,000, pretty good for a small game.
I was so card dead for the first hour that I couldn't
even play my big blinds if someone min-raised
preflop. We're down to 12, 6 to a table.

Now the drama starts. Blinds are 100/200, and I
see Ah-4d so I call the big blind, Just wanted to
see a flop and hope for the best. Player next to me
folds, next one raises to 800. He's been raising
preflop so much that I really didn't believe him,
frustration takes over and I go all in, $3000. He calls
with A-J suited. Got sick to my stomach, but too
late to do anything about it now. Flop comes x2x,
2 hearts, turn is 5 hearts. I'm holding my breath and
calling for a 3 at the same time {is that possible?}
Everyone else says you can get a flush too. Well,
the impossible happens, and a 3 on the river, and
I get my straight. 5 out of 6 players scream and laugh,
we know who didn't. I apologize for screaming, but
tell them if I didn't they would have been covered with
brain matter because my head would have exploded.
I even tell the guy it was a horrible play on my part,
but I couldn't take it anymore.

Then we're down to 10, 1 table. Unbelievably, pocket
kings get dealt 5 times in about 15 minutes. Players
were showing even when not called. We're down to 7.
Then in the big blind I get A-A {WEEEE}. I've got about
7,700, and go all in. My aces get cracked too many
times for me to slow play them. I think 5 had called BB
and started folding. One player is thinking about it, and
I say, oh, you got those pocket Kings? Well, he calls,
and he did have K-K. Everyone bursts out laughing, and
he's smiling, until I turn over my A-A. He actually lost some
color in his face. Well, my aces held up, and now I'm chip
leader. Oh, my God.

Slowly, 2 more players are eliminated, we're now at 300/600.
I'm in the BB and see J-J. Fold, fold, fold, SB is very short
stacked, and raises to 1700. I say I'll put you all in. He
says he didn't count on that, thinks about it, and finally folds.
I say you want to see, and he says no, so I muck. Next hand
the flop is A-5-x, x turn, J river. He says he would have loved
that flop because he had A-5, and I said but the J on the river
would have given me trips. Funny how it's always the next
hand. He goes out soon after and we're down to 4.

I get A-Q in SB and raise 3000. BB goes all in, another 4000
and I call. He has 10-10 and they hold up. Now I'm down to
8000. Blinds are up to 500/1000. Got to get some cards.
I guess they think I'm bluffing and raising aggressively, but
I'm getting the cards to make the raises. I'm in SB and see
A-J os, and go all in. The BB, player who just took my chips,
lost half of them in a hand before that, calls with J-10 hearts.
He's got me outchipped by 1 500 chip. Flop is xxJ, turn is
the dreaded 10, I wanted to throw up. Anyone want to take
a guess what the river was? THAT'S RIGHT, IT WAS AN ACE!!!!!!!
Of course I screamed again, and said how sick I was when
there was a 10 on the turn. He says not as sick as he was to
see the ace on the river. He's all in the next hand, and is
eliminated. We're down to 3 {can you believe this? I had a
hard time myself} I say, anyone want to chop 3 ways?
Short stack says yes, but player who has maybe a few more
chips than me doesn't say anything, just keeps chewing
his gum. 1st pays $245, 2nd $147, 3rd $98. Why settle
for 160 when you can get 245. And he's very aggressive.

We play for a while, blinds are 1000/2000, I'm chip leader
with about 30,000, other 2 are about even with about 12,000.
I double up player to my left, still have a small chip lead. The
player who didn't want to chop has 12000. He's BB, I'm button.
I have A-6 os, and call bb. He goes all in, I call, and he turns
over K-3 off. My Ace holds up, and we're down to 2. We play
1 hand and I ask, do you want to chop? He says sure. So we
each got $196. Maybe I would have won 50 more, but we all
know how fast a chip lead can change, maybe I would have
gotten 50 less. We had played for almost 3 hours, and why
butt heads when we both can walk away happy. I do my
Rocky impression, arms up in the air, singing DA-DA-DA!!!!

I'm still smiling. Makes me feel soooooooo much better
after getting beaten in the limit cash games. Sorry this
was so long, but wanted to share the drama and joy with
you. My sister asked if it was all work or did I have fun, too.
I said it was hard work, but this time I really had the MOST FUN.

Debby

[JenniferNL]

Great story! It's good to hear how crazy cards can be at a live game too. Seems all you hear is things don't happen live like they do online! Well here is proof!

Awesome job! Way to hang in there and take it down!

[UIIIU]

man when ur running that good you cant chop atleast thats how i feel but it was a good read and congratz on your cash

[astros_fan]

WTG Katzgirl!

[Jammer33]

Congrats Debby! Well done!

Poker is great