........ or maybe not

So having viewed Mr Hellmuth's rant in the link on yesterday's post I now have to agree with him ! If my exit tonight from the Sporting Odds Champions League had happened live I would have let rip too !

The villains of the piece were sat at seat 2 with 2720 chips and at seat 9 with 1360, with me at seat 10 with 1390 chips. The blinds (15/30) are seats 6 and 7.

I am holding 9s 9d and raise to 90 chips, with calls from seats 2, 7 and 9.

The flop is 7c, 6c, 4s. Seat 7 bets 90, called by seat 9 and I raise to 450 chips, which is then called by seats 2 and 9.

The turn is Jh. Seat 9 checks and I bet 450. Seat 2 then raises to 900 and I am prepared to call, until seat 9 goes all in (850 chips). I think about calling because I am down to 400 chips (although that is more than 10x the BB) but common sense says one of them must have a hand - AJ being most likely - and I don't have a straight draw and any club on the river puts me out so I decide to fold.

What do I find I am up against ? K8 clubs at seat 9 and two more clubs at seat 2 (my hand history doesn't recall them as I folded but I don't think either was paired by the board, certainly not a J). Both of them have been chasing a flush draw from the flop !!!!!! Academically, the river was an 8 so seat 9 wins with a pair of eights, and would have won with K high !!.

I survived a bit longer getting through a couple of big blinds but never getting up to more than 520 (no calls when I had a decent hand) and eventually go out with K 10 spades to 77 (board 34447 ! no spades !).

No more poker for me tonight and none at all tomorrow as I will be away from any computers and I am looking forward to it immensely !