So I am playing in a 9 person sit and go tonight and the game has been up and down the whole time, a couple of bad beats here and some suckouts there, nothing crippling nothing outstanding.  Eventually I get down to heads up play and my opponent, that has been playing solid poker all night, much to my surprise, turns into a donkey.  I am going to skip the up and downs and folds and just focus on the final hand.  The blinds are 300/600 I have about 7500 chips and my opponent has 5500.  I get my cards and end up with pocket deuces, 2 of spades and 2 of hearts.  Now in most situations 2s are a calling hand at best but heads up mediocre starting hands are worth much more.  My opponent calls from the small blind and since I have a pair heads up I am on auto raise and pump it to 1800 to go to which my opponent quickly calls.  The flop comes 8, 6, 4 with 2 hearts.  Now the small blind heads up is in the dealer button so I am first to act.  At this point I figure I have 1 chance to take down this pot and that is to be a donkey and bet into the pot with an under pair, but I figure that with him calling my raise heads up he shouldn’t have any of these cards in his hand unless it is attached to an ace, in which case he should have raised.  So I make the only move I feel I have to add that 3600 to my stack and I bet 2500.  My opponent thinks until his time start to run out and then re-raises all in leaving me 1200 more to call to win 11000, I really have no choice and can’t really imagine what he has unless he is slow playing aces.  I, of course, call the 1200 hundred, turn over my under pair and this moron turns over 8 4 off suit.  Now this guy has absolutely no business being in this hand, he should never had called my original pre-flop raise but like I said at the beginning he became a donkey and it made him huge favorite to take over a 5 to 1 chip lead heads up for the money.  Basically at this point I have a backdoor flush draw or I need to catch a 2 to win this hand.  So again I am in the situation where I am basically going all in next hand regardless of what I have as it is my only chance to make any ground up and have almost no chance of winning this hand.  The turn brings hope with a 10 of hearts . . . so again you€™re telling me there is a chance!!!!!  At this point I have 9 hearts and two 2s that can win this for me, giving me a 25% of winning.  The river brings . . . . wait for it . . . the king of hearts!!!  I cannot believe this.  Did I really just hit my 100 to 1 shot and actually finished the suckout!!!  Are you kidding me?  Well I guess that is what you get for BEING IN THE HAND IN THE FIRST PLACE, YA FRICKIN’ DONKEY!!!!!

 Ok, here is the situation.  I play in my standard home game most Wednesday nights and in my last session I had this situation. I am in middle position with King Jack suited.  I raise to 3 times the big blind.  The player to my left calls and so does the big blind, so there are 3 players in the hand, my hand at this point is not looking so strong with 2 callers.  The flop comes Jack and 2 lower cards, rainbow.  The big blind, who happens to be the short stack, bets the pot.  At this point I am feeling pretty good about my hand with top pair second kicker, and 2 people calling my raise.  I cannot put them on 2 pair with the board the way it is or with these players the short stack would have almost certainly have re-raised all-in preflop with any pocket pair especially one that could beat my Jacks.  In an attempt to isolate the raiser and decrease the chance of a suckout by one of these players I re-raise all-in with the hand that I feel pretty confident is the best hand at this point.The third player in the hand at this point takes some time to think about his move which has me a little worried as the whole reason for my all-in play was to move him out of the pot.  He finally said screw it and calls me and the original raiser folds.   At this point we turn over our cards to discover that my Pair of Jacks with King kicker is indeed the best hand on the table as my opponent turns over Queen Jack.  I have him dominated and I am about a 85% favorite to take down the pot.   I also out chip my opponent so have no chances of going home from this hand so I am feeling great, looking to almost double up my stack and get one step closer to the money.   Then we get to the turn and as high as I am on my playing skills at this point it is nothing that the filthy dirty whore of a Queen can’t fix.  She shows her face to us right at this moment and kicks me right in the sac.  I am facing certain death from this blow as even though I am not out I am severely crippled in pride, spirit and above all else chip count.  I can feel the urge to go on tilt and then flip the table over and storm off with my piggy bank swelling inside me.  With only 3 outs in the deck that can save me, I have about a 6% chance at this point and my opponent has all but taken me out with this suckout. The river brings with it hope however as I still have a chance, so you’re telling me there’s a chance!!!!!  So I wait, with the anticipation and prayers of a virgin on prom night, for one of my cowboys to hit the felt with the final card to come.  However with little chance of that happen I am counting my remaining chips trying to figure out how many blinds I have left and what the minimum cards are I am looking for at this point to push all-in again and attempt to salvage something out the debacle this tourney style home game has become.  After what seems like an eternity the dealer final flips over the river card and I see PAINT!!!!!  My chances have gone from 7% to 50%, the heart starts to race and as I inspect further I see a beautiful looking King with an axe smiling up at me, one-upping my opponent’s suckout with a larger one of my own, I think got a cramp from it.   So with this beautiful “that’s poker” situation I was able to almost double my stack, send someone home and have the satisfaction of a suckout to win this “mine bigger than yours is” game we were playing.  Final parting words, Sorry buddy, that’s poker, thanks for the chips DONKEY!!!!!!

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