Last night I went down to Hawaiian Gardens with Zengy to play some NL and witnessed one of the all-time great suckouts. Luckily I wasn’t in this hand but it was amazing all the same.
Flop comes Q high, all clubs. Player in EP catches a flush on the flop and pushes all in for about $150 (J high in his hand). MP calls the all-in with KQ with no clubs. LP calls the all-in with A of clubs and some other junk card. Now, at this point in the story you’re probably saying to yourself, EP needs to push anybody drawing with a higher flush off the hand so that move makes sense. It’s a little loose but you may even be saying to yourself that A of clubs made an ok call here (I might argue with that since you know that 3 clubs are on board, your opponent has to have at least 2 and you have a caller in-between who probably has one if not two clubs which leaves you drawing to 5 – 7 outs). And some of you may even be thinking, what the hell is MP even thinking calling with just a pair of queens. See, that just shows what fools you are. Turn came Q and the river came K giving him a full house and he took down about $400.
Behold the power of the suckout! :-)
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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I saw a beat just as bad at Commerce the other night. $100 NL table… I forget what the preflop action was like but the flop came A66 with 2 diamonds on the board. 5 players look like they are trying to see the turn when someone pushes all in. 3 players go all in… I immediately assume 1 player on the diamond draw and the other two each holding a 6 or one of them playing a single ace since I didn’t put either player on pocket A’s… As players start to turn up their hands I’m looking dead on… Seat 1 has KJd (drawing to the nut flush), seat 5 has 6x (playing his set) Now the last guy shows me why I too am a fool of poker… He turns up his pocket 7’s… Turn is a blank, river 7… he claps his hands and starts raking in his pot of about 775 dollars (the 3 all ins all had decent stacks in front of them).
Luckily he didn’t play his chip lead at the table correctly and most of us made some money off of him. (He busted out less then 2 hours later)