As a Hold’em player you have to expect the occasional Runner-Runner getting your chips from you. You philosophically remark that people like that are your bread and butter and you won’t tap the glass. I guess it is marginally better than paying for the person’s address to one of those on line sites that do that kind of thing; then going there and fire bombing his car after using the previous info to cancel his car insurance. I don’t have that problem. Mine is worse. At the Stud tables, runner-runner is a pretty common experience. If you get to 5th street, you’re often the beneficiary of such cards. But that is the Runner3 that I am talking about. This is what I am talking about:
This is a .25-.50 table on Full Tilt. It is the 2nd hand I played that session. The down cards aren’t always shown in the order they are dealt. But, the eventual winner either had K5 or K8 from the betting. I had AA. I had Aces Up on 5th. The door betting was 3-bet and the other player bet and I raised on 4th. From that point, I bet when my heads up opponent checked. The showdown leaves me trying to make up about half a buyin.
Now Aces Up isn’t a great hand and will be beat with regularity at the stud tables. If you can’t live with that happening, maybe model airplanes would be a more enjoyable hobby. From the betting, it was obvious though that my opponent was likely behind when I got the queens on 5th street. A good player might have folded. It was a nice pot at that point; so, it is hard to really beat him up; although, the betting really defined my hand and put him well behind.
The fact that people hit these kinds of hands isn’t unusual. In fact it is a fairly frequent occurrence at these limits with often 4 or 5 players chasing with hands that are pretty obviously behind. That is different from this situation. But the type of player isn’t.
Here’s some odds:
K was 63:36 dog at the door and slightly less (66:33) on 4th and that dropped to 78:22 when I paired the queens.
With those odds and the pot what it was, it was something you can chase with. You have to expect this