Chasing Chris Ferguson

by the Card Fairy.  The little be-atch is on the rampage 24/7, tracking me down and trampling me to death with a herd of ugly beats.  Sure, they may not be ugly to you but that’s because they aren’t happening to you.  I’ve played in about 3 to 4 tournaments a day and never made the $$ for the last week or so.  The only thing that has kept my little BR hovering at the $500 mark is the 7 stud 8 or better $1&2 and occasional $2&4.  That little be-atch hasn’t found me there yet.  Whew!

The beats, sure we all have them, but they go on and on and on and on, like K-K creamed by 9-9 that hits a set, and A-K dominated by A-Q hitting a Queen, and this is one that if I really thought I was being cheated (of course I am, Goof Nut - I can’t possibly play that bad), I would believe it happened on this hand:

$10+$1 Hold’em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2008/05/09
Seat #7 is the button

Seat 6: s1imp1cknz (9425 in chips)

Seat 8: ulamirn (11000 in chips)

Seat 9: PokerWorks (6555 in chips)

The ante is $25

ulamirn: posts small blind 150

PokerWorks: posts big blind 300

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to PokerWorks [Ac Ah]

s1imp1cknz: raises 600 to 900

ulamirn: calls 750

PokerWorks: raises 600 to 1500

s1imp1cknz: calls 600

ulamirn: calls 600

FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, I could have made a bigger raise here, but I don’t believe anything would have changed with ulamirn. 

*** FLOP *** [7h Td 3c]

ulamirn: checks

PokerWorks: bets 2300

s1imp1cknz: folds

ulamirn: raises 2300 to 4600

PokerWorks: raises 430 to 5030 and is all-in

ulamirn: calls 430

*** TURN *** [7h Td 3c] [Qh]

*** RIVER *** [7h Td 3c Qh] [9c]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

ulamirn: shows [Qs 9s] (two pair, Queens and Nines)

PokerWorks: shows [Ac Ah] (a pair of Aces)

ulamirn collected 14785 from pot

To say that I almost fell out of my chair would be a complete understatement.  I couldn’t quite grasp the fact that ulamirn really thought to run me off the hand with a check raise at that point, or that he thought Queen high was good.  And I know that most internet players don’t pay any attention, but I hadn’t played very many hands and the ones that I did that went to showdown were all credible hands.

Glenda and I even chatted about the hand.  I told her that I was seriously thinking of sending an email to PokerStars support and asking if this guy was cheating (somehow having found a leak in their system) or if he was just a donk.  Glenda found his stats and he is not a winning player.  So I give up, he’s just a donk.  And yes ulamirn, I hope you find yourself here and read this.  But keep in mind, that I also hope that you play at my table everyday for the rest of my life.

But the whole bad run is just a continuing nightmare.  I picked up three hands, back to back, Aces - carved up in pieces by 5-5 hitting a set, 10-10 winning about a $1,300 pot after pushing all-in and getting called by A-3 off (have no idea how they didn’t hit), the next hand 10-10 and a push, lost to an all-in that had something like 9-3 off.

And running bad works in other ways.  Like getting a hand and not getting paid off on it.  In one tourney the guy on my immediate left raised all-in pre-flop on every hand for the first hour.  I pitched, and pitched, and pitched…nothing to play anyway.  Then, SB, I picked up K-Q spades.  I was waiting for Mr. BB - Raise Every Hand to push.  He had me covered but I didn’t care, I was going for it because I’d seen some of the hands he’d pushed with (it was a re-buy tourney).  I completed the blind bet when it came around - him and me - heads-up.  He checked.  The flop brought A-10 little.  I checked, he checked.  The turn brought a Jack, no suits.  I checked, he checked.  The river didn’t change  a damn thing.  I bet $50, he folded.  Fiddle shit!

Back to the Poker Wars.  Join us in the forum if you wanna chat up anything here…like MO-RON ulamirn.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.