Friday, May 8, 2009

Too Good to be True

The trouble with Yahoo cash games is that they get your hopes high, only to knock them down. It happened again late today....

BLINDS: $1/$2 (pretend dollars)

IN THE POCKET: 10-9

Connected? OK. We'll bet. Several do.

ON THE FLOP: Ks-Qd-Jc

A straight on the flop! A rainbow straight, at that!! The odds of someone having A-10 to top us seem very slim, so we're betting this. A few players at the full table join in, all the way to the $12 maximum.

ON THE TURN: 3c.

Nice and harmless. We keep betting, as do others -- and we actually stop at 12 (limit now 20) so we don't rub it in.

ON THE RIVER: 7c.

Uh-oh. Now others are raising before we do. That's not a good sign, but we're pot-committed. We call and go the distance -- and sure enough, a player to our right hit a club flush on the river. (The only person who did.)

"Aaarggggggggggggh," we write. If only Yahoo had an all-in button, to scare people away from "river fishing."

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