Aces never win

Hang around poker players long enough and you will hear someone say this.

The general theory with AA is that you either win a small pot with them or lose a big one and the home game was certainly not going to be one to buck that trend.

I’ll just fast forward to the exciting part of the game if you all don’t mind.

The game is set at Chateau Ontario and present are Ontario, the Mouth, Alejandro, Ace, J6, and a couple of new fish. The Captain is absent given the possible late finish of the game running past his 11:30 curfew.

The Rapper arrives late and seizes the opportunity to box in the Mouth’s car so he can’t beat and early retreat.

In walks the Rapper with a wine bottle in hand fresh from work somewhat reticent of 2005 J6 and sets himself at the table with position on Ontario and the Mouth.

Chips are flipped over to the Rapper and cash exchanged and no sooner do the cards hit the table when Ontario says “props?”

A couple hands are go round as the details get worked out with the Rapper taking clubs from the soon to be leaving Alejandro for suits, and Ontario and the Rapper playing Red/Black flops and paired boards with doubles and triples both in play. This pretty much gives action on every hand where their is a flop and Ontario starts building a pretty decent stack off the Rapper with a run on Red Flops. The Rapper takes almost all of it back on a AAA with two black Aces flop though and to make it even better calls Ace’s hand of pocket ducks to totally wow the viewing audience at home.

And then things start to get ugly.

Ace has made himself a pretty nice stack with he decides to slow play AA against J6 with AK and gets crushed on a K44K8 and ends up doubling up J6 to a chip lead he would not relinquish for the rest of the night.

New Fish (no not that Fish) gets involved when he decides to slow play AA vs the Rapper’s J9 and can’t get rid of it on a JJ8T8 board and gets felted.

A couple players call it a night but that only seems to increase the gamble with the game getting short handed and down players trying to claw their way back up to positive.

The game gets progressively looser and looser as the Mouth gets felted and goes on a bit of a mini tilt trying to win it all back since he can’t get his car out (remember the Rapper?)

The remaining players are quite content to play a straddle with the occasional double and triple straddle even hitting the table. It’s late in the wee hours when said triple straddle is made by the Rapper who gets reraised by the Mouth who gets two callers to his surprise or glee whichever way you want to look at it.

The flop comes K85 and New Fish with a beard ships his stack in the middle UTG and gets snapped called by the Mouth, the Rapper decides now might be a good time to look at his cards and see what he has and peaks down at… 55 and almost breaks his wrist getting his chips in the middle calling.

Over go the cards and the KQ from New fish is in serious trouble to the AA from the Mouth who needs help and can’t catch the two outer. The Rapper stacks two with one blow and ends the game.

Big winner was J6 with Ontario making a nice run at the end to only owe a bit of paper to the Rapper who would have been up even more if their were more than 5 black cards in the deck.