I'm just sharing with you, troll me at will.
So... I was today in a big live tournament. Deep stack (200BB), 25 minutes blinds, 140 players.
After 5 hours of play I had been completely card dead: had AK once and TT once. And that was it.
Then I made a very good but risky move, check-raised all in with KQ on JT7r flop against BTN. He thought for a long while, called with a pair and my straight came. Good, double up.
After a couple more orbits I get QQ on UTG+1 (full ring table). Standard raise, one caller from middle position. I knew the guy, very aggressive player who called frequently with speculative hands.
The flop is KKT duotone. I could cbet, I know. But I thought that would turn my hand a bit into a bluff, and I would have to fold to a raise. So I checked, and he made a smallish bet.
Now... the blinds were 800 and 1.600, I had a bit more than 25k on my stack, so did him. I had raised to 3.5k before the flop, so the pot was 9.4k. His bet was between 3 and 5k, I can't even remember right.
I started thinking, what the f* could he have? A king, of course. What king? AK, aggressive as he is, would have 3bet. KK, even more. KQ was possible but unlikely, as I had two of the Q. So... either underpairs (JJ-) or a flush draw would make sense. Of course, he could have TT and I would be crushed, but on the whole of his range (which included air of course) I was frankly ahead.
Folding being out of question, what would be my plan on turn and river? No plan. I'd have to check most cards anyway, or make a weird donkbet with not much fold equity. Except if I hit the unlikely Q, of course. So... calling was ugly if I really thought I was ahead, no other choice but to raise. Since I would be pot commited anyway, raised all-in.
He thought for 5 seconds and made the call. Right after, he asks "do you have the K?", wtf. No, I don't. He turns over T9 of the other suit, so I'm crushing him badly. He put me on the flush draw and called with his low pair, low kicker. He has 2 outs, only the two T out there (as a 9 would chance nothing, only running nines would save him).
I ran the equity of course, I had 92%.
Turn is a T and he knocks me out as he has me covered for a couple hundred chips.
Online bad beats suck big time, of course. But now I'm sure live ones are worse: no multitabling, no chance of starting another tournament. Only waiting for the next one, months to come.
As I said, troll me at will. Still, I'm ridiculously frustrated (yet again, I know) but glad I've played quite well l(I think) even being card dead for a long while. And I'm happy about my thought process in the hand, how read him like a book and put it in being so much ahead.
Even though, of course, I have now the feeling many of you had at least once, if not many times: this is bs, I should just quit poker.
