Achebe Was Right

liquid's YTD: $596.70

The rush is over: I dropped $150 -- three buy-ins -- over the weekend. Now I am filled with doubt and self-loathing. Among the low-lights was my first all-in loss in roughly three weeks. Regrettably, I was drawing deader than dead when I pushed my chips in. Now I'm faced with the unenviable chore of reading through 500 hands to review my play.

So on to the hand du jour! Here is a beauty that occurred just as I was mounting a comeback.

Omaha Hi $0.50-$1 PL (real money), hand #767,xxx,xxx
Table Remich, 27 Mar 2005 12:05 AM

Seat 1: foe ($55.50 in chips)
Seat 2: MP2 ($225 in chips)
Seat 3: CO ($133.50 in chips)
Seat 5: SB ($22.75 in chips)
Seat 7: BB ($27.25 in chips)
Seat 8: button ($14.75 in chips)
Seat 9: UTG ($16.75 in chips)
Seat 10: hero [10C,JS,9S,10D] ($80.50 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDS
SB posts blind ($0.25), BB posts blind ($0.50).

PRE-FLOP
button folds, UTG calls $0.50, hero bets $2, foe calls $2, MP2 folds, CO folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls $1.50.

Standard pre-flop raise. No regrets there.

FLOP [board cards AS,7S,3S ]
UTG checks, hero bets $6.75, foe bets $27, UTG folds, hero calls $20.25.

I took most of my allotted time to make this keen decision. In that time I managed to convince myself that foe put me on aces and so was pushing with any flush at all. I see now that at this level of a game, and against a foe I had not observed making such a move, this was a poor rationalization.

TURN [board cards AS,7S,3S,10S ]

A glimmer of hope as I get my set. Buh-bye, chips.

hero bets $27, foe calls $26.50 and is all-in.

RIVER [board cards AS,7S,3S,10S,QH ]

SHOWDOWN
hero shows [ 10C,JS,9S,10D ]
foe shows [ KC,KS,7D,2S ]
hero wins $0.50, foe wins $110.75.

Did I really expect anything else?