Ethics

Whining About Poker

By Ed Brayton

I had an absolutely horrid night of poker tonight and, since I have a blog, I'm gonna whine about it. In two hours of play I lost $400 while getting great cards. I had pocket queens 4 times in 2 hours, raised big preflop all 4 times and lost all 4 times. Twice it was to a big ace when an ace hit the board, which is okay; that's how you expect to lose if you have pocket queens and you know that's gonna happen sometimes.

But once I got called by a drunk idiot with a 10 2 off suit. He called a $16 preflop raise (this was a $1/$2 no limit game) with that hand and the flop was J 8 2. Then he called an $88 all in bet after the flop with his bottom pair, middle kicker. And of course, he hit a 10 on the river. This was only a few hands after he won about $150 from me in a pot where I had A J and the flop was A J 4. He had a 4 5 and rivered a third 4.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).