Rakeback Planet

Lucky River…

Played in a small cash game last night at my friends place, 10$/10$ blinds only NL Hold’em. There was 6 of us playing with buy-in from $500-$1000max at a time. After a few beers 3 of my friends seemed to forget that you are allowed to fold your cards in this game so it was basically impossible to pull a bluff off since I was getting called by not 1 but most of the time all 3 of them lol…After loosing my first $500 I bought in for a $1000 and changed up my game a bit, started playing tighter with them and waiting for really good hands to really reel these fishes in. I got up to about $1800 and that when I got crazy lucky for a change instead of one of them catchin something on the river like they have been doing all night long. I had 9,9 on the button and raise to $185 since I really didnt want to have anyone in the hand with sub-par hands. To my susprise 2 of my drunk buddies folded but 1 called. Flop came out Q,K,6 which was obviously bad for me but thankfully he checked over to me and so did I. Turn came a 2 and there were 3 different suits on board so no possibility of a flush. He bet $250 and I knew he caught either a Q or a K but for some reason just felt like calling and I did. River came a 9 and he went all in right away and before even moving all of his chips in got an instant call from me. He turned over Q,K and then I showed my set of 9’s lol…Since we are friends I threw him a $100 chip just because I got so lucky and that brought me up to over $3000 right away and I ended up leaving the table with $3500 at the end of the night, but that is just a reminder of how bad that dreadfull river card could hurt, thankfully in this case the luck was on my side.