Burning the House

I usually use these posts to brag.  However, this time I have to give kudos to a fellow player.  For the first time in about a month, I did not reach the final table at Scoreboard.

The game started with roughly six players at each of four tables.  The blinds were 25 / 50.  I was playing some goofy hands and getting paid off, for example, I raised with 7 / 10 and got a straight on the river.  So, I was having fun, building up a quite-nice size stack when I pulled pocket 10′s.  The blinds are now up to 50 /100 and I raise to 300.  Lady across the table re-raises to 600.  I call.  I don’t recall seeing her before and am not sure of her style of play.  She looks peeved.  I had beat her out of a pot before with a big raise on the river (that straight I mentioned, although no one ever saw the hole cards) and I had noticed she was making some huge raises and re-raises.  It came down to only us two players on this hand.

The flop is two aces and a four or nine, something insignificant.  I put a feeler bet out there and she called, seemingly reluctantly to me.  Seemed kind of ticked off.  The turn brought a ten, which is what I was waiting for and I bet around 1200.  She mulled it over and called.  I have a FULL HOUSE now, keep in mind, tens full of aces.  The river is a blank and she bets a thousand.  I have her out-gunned so I count out a thousand and I am having a really hard time figuring out how to put her all in when the guy next to me says 1325.  So, I’m like OK, and add 325.  She calls.

I am quite happy.  I figured she has A-x and she thinks her trip Aces are good.  I (somewhat proudly) turn my cards over and say Full House.  She flips her cards and YEP she has an ace  . . . and another ace.  Pocket rockets burned down the house.  I think she apologized and I said no, no, that is the way you are supposed to play it, good hand.  (Good acting, too.)

I slowed down after that and was eliminated one or two spots from the final table after about 90 minutes of play.  I think I played as well as possible.  Just never considered the possibility of quad aces.  Perhaps I should have slowed down, she certainly could have had an Ace-x with the “x” matching one of the cards on the board to give her a bigger full house, also.  In any event, I got a little too cocky and loose with the chips, over-confident and got burned.  All in a day’s work.

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