AK is a curse upon my soul. In the first SNG I kept quiet during the first two passes of the button when I finally was dealt AK.
Elvis Pre Flop:
Opponent Pre Flop (unbeknownst to me):
The Flop:
I placed a pot-sized bet. Then my opponent raised, putting me all in. When I saw my two aces against his two fives, I was jubilant.
Then this ugliness was displayed:
And I was a goner. Now for the second SNG just take the above and replace the fives with 10's and it was the exact scenario. A 10 on the turn and I was the short stack. Two terrible bad beats. I figured when these guys saw the ace on the board and by the way I was betting they had to know I had a pair of bullets. As for their pot odds, well, at the $5.50 level nobody cares about pot odds.
Later in the second SNG with a slightly bigger stack but still the short stack at the table and with 6 people left I went all in with A 10 suited. I had enough chips to at least make the guys playing Foldem Holdem fold, but I got a call from a guy with two 9's. The board filled with 2 aces and a ten. One guy typed "bad beat from hell." Not when you beat the guy on the flop it isn't. Then the very next hand I was in the big blind with aces. The small blind tried a steal on me by bringing me all in again, and naturally I had to call. My bullets held up but then when I made the money I did as Lee Jones instructs by pushing hard with A3. "Random hands" my hiney, Lee Jones! I ran into a pair of ladies and that was it.
That is all. Sorry for my verbose prose, but I had to get it all out.
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