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."