Ultimate Bet No Limit Post

This is a post from Nar PowPow, a Surgical Poker Correspondent who plays online at Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt Poker. This is a recent hand of no limit. Please post any thoughts.

narpowpow posts the small blind of $.50.
rbsx posts the big blind of $1.

narpowpow: Qc Qh

Pre-flop:

CompanyBot folds. thefifthman calls. Barthozzz
folds. blackNmild84 folds. narpowpow raises to $4.
rbsx folds. thefifthman calls .

Flop (board: 7c Ts 7h):

narpowpow bets $9. thefifthman raises to $36.

okay...nervous that he caught trips, but, again, donkey...hoping he was bluffing. he'd done it several times and gotten caught, showing crap or folding. so i decide to be aggressive...too aggressive, granted.

narpowpow goes all-in for $83.65. thefifthman goes all-in for $67.25.

OKAY...figured i'm screwed now, and that he had called my pre-flop raise with 2 7 or some such crap and caught trips or 10 7 and flopped a boat.

Turn (board: 7c Ts 7h 9c):

(no action in this round)

River (board: 7c Ts 7h 9c 5h):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:

narpowpow shows Qc Qh.
narpowpow has Qc Qh 7c Ts 7h: two pair, queens and sevens.
thefifthman shows 3d Td. HOLY CRAP...not only did he call my preflop raise with shite, he went all in with top pair/pathetic kicker.
thefifthman has Td 7c Ts 7h 9c: two pair, tens and sevens.

Hand #37041367-186689 Summary:

$3 is raked from a pot of $143.50.
narpowpow wins $140.50 with two pair, queens and sevens. mmm, mmm tasty.

Black Bullets Drag Monster

I was playing at my usual 2-5 spread limit game at Bay 101 and frankly getting beat up by a couple loose aggressive players. I was a little intimidated and slightly on tilt after my AA-99 lost a big pot to trip fives. I bought in again and settled in waiting for a hand to play against one of the very good players.

When I looked down at the black bullets in my hand, I knew it might be my time. Someone ahead of me made it $25 to go and I promptly put it up another $100 hoping at least one but no more than two people would call. Everyone folded except the guy earlier who took $200 from me with the trip fives. He called. The flop came out K97, all clubs. I unfortunately or fortunately had to act first. I knew he might have a made flush but with the Ace of clubs in my hand, I felt like I had to put the pressure on him.

I made it $200 to go and he immediately called. I only had about $55 left so I am not sure why he didn't put me all in. Now, I was convinced he had a flush and that my aces had been cracked. The turn came out with a five of diamonds. I tossed my last chips in and told him I had the flush. He called anyway. The river was a beautiful 2 of clubs giving me the nuts. I flipped it up and he showed his buddy and then mucked. Later I found out he had QQ with the Q of clubs. The pot was juicy and my biggest ever.

I am not sure if I learned anything on this hand but it obviously made my day......

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Bay 101 Super Satellite for the WPT Shooting Star

Sucks outs beat skill. On President's Day, I played in the Bay 101 Super Satellite. The top 6 players received a seat to the $10,000 WPT Shooting Star. My initial table was 3-4 loose aggressive players mixed in with a maniac and 3 rocks. I was simply trying to survive in the middle of the tourney when the button came around to me. At that point, I was a short stack but not THE short stack. I looked down at 2-4 of diamonds. Everyone quickly folded to me. That left the maniac small blind and the super tight big blind. I had a pretty tight image so I went for it and pushed all in simply to steal the blinds. The small folded but the big blind thought FOREVER and then called with pocket eights.

I said "you got me". The flop comes out Q-5-3, no diamonds. Okay, now I am praying for an Ace to make a wheel. The turn is an eight, making my rock friend trips. I start to get up from the table as a six floats on the river giving me my straight and life. The Rock didn't like what I was cooking on that hand. More later on he got back at me....

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