I could not stop laughing as the cards came down on this one.

I am playing in a few SnGs as a change of pace from the micro-limit ring games. Here's the hand that pretty much busted me out of this one -- there were 5 in at this point, and I hung on to finish 4th, barely.

The hand converter isn't working. I don't know if it doesn't like to read UB, or if it's the fact that I cut-and-pasted the hand to Word before trying to put it in the hand converter. Ah well. (The hand converter reads it fine, but for some reason it says that I folded this hand preflop. I wish I had!!) Anyway, I had to do a little work to make this look right.

Here goes.


Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (5 handed)

Hero (t1475)
SB (t1890)
BB (t1300)
UTG (t1230)
MP (t4105)

Preflop: Hero is Button with , .
UTG raises to t200, MP folds, Hero goes all-in for 1475, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls 1030 (all-in).

UTG shows [Qh]

Flop
Turn
River

So ridiculous. It was like the poker gods were saying -- No, Kent, you are not going to win this hand.

I really think you must've pissed off the poker gods to deserve that.

Looking at it from his point of view, do you think he was left wondering how that 3 got in there. Why not the other ace or queen. Or if you want to be really nasty why not a king just for good measure.

Keeping plugging away. Merry Christmas.