More bad beats than Tina Turner!

I played in the Poker Academy $10 Tournament on Sunday evening and I would like to thank Satan (His nickname not the Lord of Darkness) for arranging it. It was a very good game and the level of poker was as high as the level of banter! Darkplay managed a new record of having his machine crash every 6-7 minutes. I don't know how he has managed to get a machine that is about as stable as Groundskimmer* but somehow he has achieved it.

Another thing the game delivered was (as the title of this post suggests) some pretty brutal bad beats. Some I delivered, some I received. My game was all but finished when I played an all in from ajdragonfly. She turned over pocket Queens and I thought I was on the way to a chip lead with my pocket Kings. Of course the Queen came down and my comfortable stack became about the size of two big blinds.

I would like to say that I took my beats with grace and decorum and, as far as the other players were concerned I did. It is just as well they could not hear what I was saying to the computer or I would have been hit with a series of "f-bombs" that I would still be serving when I have retired! (I would also like to apologise to aj for all the things I called her when that Queen came down (out loud, not typed into the chat window). I didn't mean any of it and am sorry.)

*For more information on Groundskimmer see The Jesters Tale (follow the link on the right).