The "Coolest" Day of My Life

Don't be misled by the title, when I said "coolest" it does not have a positive meaning. It meant that I had 5 huge coolers in one day, giving me a bad losing day. Coolers are pretty common in poker life, but to get 5 in the same day is a high for me.

One of my better sessions this week

99 has lately been a dreaded hand for me. If I haven't said this, 99 has ended my tournament life in about 7-8 occasions in the last 2 years. This time round I am playing cash game, on UTG I elected to play it safe by limping 99. UTG+1 makes in 4x, a few callers so I complete. Flop comes A98cc. I check he cbets 2/3 pot, I reraise he jams. In my mind I am thinking this is bad but really? Aces? Flush draw? How am I going to die with 99 again? I called off and yes, he had aces.

Still playing 2/5, I moved to another table, this time I am UTG (seems like UTG is not good for me too) I raise to 20 with AsJc, MP, SB and BB calls. Flop comes J95sss. I got a vibe from MP that he loved that flop so I checked. Indeed he bets 40, sb calls, I call. Turn is a Qh. I check, MP bets 125, sb calls, and I call. This bet seems really big, my read of him at the moment is he has a small flush and is trying to charge our draws or even move us off. Sb probably has a draw like Qs Ks, so I feel that I still have a great price to draw. River is 7s. Yes finally I hit! Sb checks, I wanted to get value from a small flush from both players so I bet small, only 275. MP mumbles and grumbles then suddenly shoves for 1100! Sb snap folds. I show the As then went into the tank. I will spare you my analysis but I folded after about 2 minutes. He shows 86ss.

At least I have a nice room to go back to

A few orbits later, button straddled to 10, I am sb with Q7hh I limp, BB and 4 others limped. Flop is 234hhh. Flopped the flush! I check, bb bets and all fold. I call. Turn blank, I check he bet, I call. River is a blank, I felt that I can rep a busted Ah draw so I put him all in for about 400 he snap calls with K6hh.

Immediate next hand I am dealt QQ on the button. I will spare you the details but I ran into AA. Did not go all in, but lost a good 80bb. It was against the same guy as the previous hand. Interestingly a few hands later I got KK and he had QQ, but flop was an Ace that killed all action. So that is kind of a cooler where I am ahead in the cooler but he lost the minimum.

And the food in the casino is not bad

Last cooler could have been avoided but well played by villain. Mp opens, LJ limps, villain on CO limps, I have K9ss on the sb I call. Flop came QT8cch. Checked around. Turn Jh. I made 2nd nut straight and with 2 flush draws on the board. I lead out, MP calls, CO reraises. I am thinking he couldn't have limped AK so he might have a straight maybe with a flush draw as a redraw. His raise was to about 200 and he had 350 behind. I put him all in and he calls and turns over AK.

Let's hope I will have better news to report to you guys next time.