RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 11/03/18> Some catching up and SBI Saturday in this edition…
Awwwww Thanks. I already feel like I get all the value from supporting the daily dose. I can't think of anyplace else on the planet where I could discuss the threaded joints in a pump string and be even vaguely understood!
Well, that makes two of us. I voted by mail and had my ballot in the mail box 3 days ahead of the 'day'. Like you I voted for 0 incumbents. I thought my county commissioner was running this year (and I've have voted for that incumbent) but I was wrong.
I can only remember one time that I had 4 of a kind (with no wild cards)and I showboated the end. "Two pair. Both Jacks." was my call. I wish I hadn't but I ultimately beat a guy that I played against a lot and got carried away. I apologized shortly after and he and I actually became friends. He's the guy that taught me that you CAN cut your friends heart out in a Poker game and should expect it to be done to you.
So life is good. Thanks for your part of that.
Well four jacks is a powerful hand and in some poker games making a announcement of your hand like that could have cost you the win on that hand. Most live poker games I played in the cards don't speak for themselves and the player has to say what he has. So saying "two pairs" is what you would have been credited with having and three of a kind would have beaten you.
Obviously, that situation would never happen in online poker since the computer is always going to calculate the hand as the highest possible hand.
Back in the mid 80's I was staying over east of the Mississippi River just south of Memphis and there was a bar on Brooks Road called "The Saloon". The owner of that place would have a poker game over at his condo the first and third Thursday of each month.
The game was Texas Hold 'Em and the ante was 5 cents / the max bet was the pot size. It was a cash money game and when you took a seat at the table you had to have your playing money on the table, there was no reaching in your pocket to bring out extra cash when you needed it.
I have only had four of kind in one live game and it was at one his games.
I had pocket queens and flop was Queen , Queen, Ace. I had to really work to keep my poker face on as the hand proceeded. I had about $800 in front of me at the time.
The button was one seat to my left so I always had the last bet. The big blind made a pot size bet and that took out two players with their folding leaving me and four others having called the bet.
The next card was a meaningless low card and the big blind bet the pot which I promptly raised when the bet got to me with pot limit bet. Two others folded. Another meaningless card and the big blind bet the pot, the others ahead of me folded and I bet the pot again. The long and short was I ended up all in by the time it was said and done.
The big blind was sure he had won, he had pocket aces and was sporting a full boat of Aces over queens and he told me to "read 'em and weep" as he laid over that pocket pair.
As he reached for the pot I told him. "Not so fast partner, the last time I checked, four queens beats that boat of yours all the way to hell and back." as I flip my queens on to the table.
The guy about crapped himself in disbelieve but there was no mistaking he had just been "bitch slapped" as I call it. That pot size was right around $1700 and that was the single largest cash hand I have ever won. I don't play much live poker any more but that was definitely my finest moment in live play.
No question that you can cut a friends heart out as Shortie did that to me with her four eights in one of our family games we play. She said she was sorry as she was twisting that knife though.
This was a 'cards declare themselves' game, and I played in it every week for at least 10 years. Texas hold 'em hadn't made it to eastern Washington yet then so we almost always played draw or 7 stud. There was some lowball played at that table too.
Speaking of house rules I got thumped in a lowball game one time (different table, different town) with a bicycle. That was a 6-4 lowest hand. It was an expensive lesson, but I haven't ever made that error again.
That's such a good feeling, isn't it? The bitch slap?
It is a good feeling when you are delivering it, that is for sure, not so much though on the receiving end.
I don't play those low ball, games and such in fact I have my filters set on the poker sites I play to only display the Texas Hold Em games, not even interested in playing just the standard games anymore. I am a one man band now when it comes to poker.