Life and Times of a Poker Addict

Well, I was privy to just about the funniest thing I've seen in poker on Wednesday night. The usual group of us decided to get together and have a little birthday sit-n-go for our buddy Richard. We bought him in and then put a $50 bounty on his head for the evening. As has been the case lately, I was mostly cold-decked for the night. I finally got a spot to make a move on someone and he turned over his one good hand for the night, Aces versus my Ace-Queen, and I was crippled and out the next hand. Not surprisingly, I got knocked out holding Ace-Queen. I'm beginning to see what Negreanu and Doyle mean about that hand.

In any event, we get down to four handed play with JT, Matt, Richard and his brother Jack. Approximate chip counts are: JT with 1000, Richard with 600, Jack with 300 and Matt with 100. Richard picks up Presto (55) under the gun limps in with blinds at 15/30. Jack pitches his hand and JT goes in the tank for a minute. There had been a little glitch in Richard's routine before he bet which I guess made JT suspicious. He raises it to 90 and Richard immediately goes over the top all-in. Jack folds and JT has Richard count it down, after thinking for about twenty or thirty more seconds he calls.

I'll give you a second to determine what hand you think JT might hold in this situation.

And now I'll confirm that there is no earthly way you'll guess that he turned over J 8 of diamonds.

Jd8d versus 5h5s.

Flop comes 10c 7c 2s, turn is the 9s and Richard is now drawing dead.

The look on Richard's face when the 9 fell is something I will forever regret not having on videotape.

Beers: $12
Buy-in: $50
Calling your friend's all-in with J8 suited and busting him: Priceless

Richard stared at the board for about three minutes while the rest of us laughed our ass off, he got up, walked away and then came right back to look at the board again. Matt is dancing in his seat because he just made the money on some bullshit and JT cleaned up the two of them in about five minutes and Richard was still in shock as we cleaned up the place before leaving.

All I could think about as I watched this transpire was reading in BadBlood's blog the other day about a G-Vegas joke about the fictional character Bitch Suckleton. Richard sat down and got it broken off in him by Bitch Suckleton on Wednesday night.

We've got about five hours of talking about that hand ahead of us on the way up to AC on Sunday night.

My prediction: Richard is still on tilt, and if he sees J8 of diamonds while we're up in AC, he'll break out in hives.