It was pretty late and we were down to about 7 players at the usual $5/$10 No Limit Omaha 8 game with the Juice. Here's the way the cards landed....
I was in late position and I believe that Eli was first to act and Ronnie was sitting between between Eli and me. There was the normal $25 straddle and I believe that everyone was in this hand.
My hand:
The flop:
More normal poker players would get excited about flopping the top boat but recently it has meant to me that I was about to lose all my chips to quads. Yes, even the Juice has pointed out that I have a somewhat negative attitude of late.... I believe that if I ventured into a dark room, I would probably develop (you know, I'm so "negative")....
At any rate, there are a couple of checks and Eli bets about $90 or so, Ronnie smooth calls... Had Ronnie folded, I don't know what I would have done. I put Eli on at least 1 eight, but if Ronnie called that means he had an eight and maybe 2 eights and Eli might be betting with nothing. How's that for reading your opponent! So I give it a moment and I call.
The turn:
Again, most people wouldn't really be bothered by the queen, but my luck has been so bad recently that Eli might have been betting with an over-pair and hit his 2-outer. Again, he bets... this $300 and Ronnie calls. In retrospect, I should have slow-played one more card as it is very likely that Ronnie would have called Eli's bet on the river too, but I couldn't wait... I pushed all in for a little over $1100. Eli struggles with it for a moment and makes the call. Ronnie folds.
The River:
As it turned out, Eli and Ronnie were trying to make and eights-full-of-anything-boat and Eli did make 8's full of 3's on the river, but to no avail as my 10's full of 8's held up and I scooped a very nice pot.
Let the suck outs begin!
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