Tell a favorite poker story of a good win, bad beat.
One of my favorite stories is the night I blew out 2 people on their first hand of the night. It was a $40 buy-in, no limit texas hold em game, $2/$4 blinds. A few people came late and I was already up about $70 or so. They bought in, get their chips, and sat down.
I'm dealt
[Kh] + [8s]
I was in good position, so I called the big blind and raised it to $12. Of the 10 people playing, 1 other guy calls me, along with 2 of the new people who just sat down. At this time I'm thinking I should have bet larger because they have A/K, A/Q or a high pair in hand.
The flop comes
[Kd] + [10c] + [8h]
One of the guys bet $8, the new people called, and it was around to me. Now I had just flopped 2 pair, which isn't a bad thing with only 3 other players. I thought about just calling to string along their bets and bet large on the turn, but I knew they'd probably fold. But I wanted them to think maybe I had trips. So I just doubled the bet to $16. The original raiser folds, the two newcomers call again.
Fourth street comes
[Kd] + [10c] + [8h] + [3s]
Both of the 2 new guys check really quick, and I had a suspicion that maybe they were trying to slow play me and trap me into betting. That maybe one of them had pocket 8's or 10's (because they never would have called my initial bet with only a 8/10) and just made a set. So I reluctantly checked as well.
The river
[Kd] + [10c] + [8h] + [3s] + [8c]
I wasn't even watching the cards being dealt, because I wanted to see any reaction they gave off. One of the guys sort of squinted and did 2-3 fast blinks like he was not happy with the last card, the other guy half opened his mouth and was cleaning his teeth with his tongue as if he wasn't very confident in his hand.
They both check to me, so I stall intentionally just for effect thinking about every possible hand that could beat mine, thinking about their betting patterns, wondering if they intentionally looked pissed at the last card, etc. So I eye up both of their pots, and put them both all in.
One guy flips over Q/Q, the other actually had the nerve to grin and turns over A/10 thinking his 2 pairs are best. So I toss out my K, and say "Well I got the king" then I toss out the 8 and said "Oh yeah, I also have the 8." This whole hand actually took about 3 minutes to play out, but it was the fastest I'd ever seen anyone come -n- go like that. One hand, both people go out.