Ok.. what is up with the river? How come when all the loot goes in either pre-fop or on the flop, when I’m WAY ahead, the river kills my ass. During the Midnight Madness satellite, I should have kicked out 2 players, one of them twice, but the river SAVES them. AQ vs AJ, K7 vs K3, 77 vs 66. I lost all of those races. Eventually I placed first in the SnG, but damn, thats just nuts. Then during the Midnight Madness, I was never in the all-in/ahead position until level 14. I get 99 UTG and have been really tight and make a pot sized bet. The SB calls my bet, who is also the chip leader at the table. It’s Columbo’s classic OUU flop, 46T rainbow. SB checks, I push for 1/3 his stack and he insta-calls. He calls my all in for 1/3 his chips with 88. The turn is a blank and wouldn’t you know it.. a fucking 8. Instead of having almost 30k in chips at level 14 and in the top 10 with 190 players left and in a nice stack to take down the tournament, I get busted in 190th place for $16.68 as a 95.45% favorite, thanks to the river. At least it’s not an $5 profit, but a $13 profit.
But seriously, why are the river suckouts so high?!
tags: $1, full tilt, midnight madness
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