POTD #103 A Real Tricky Hand in Madrid

A Canadian, a Hungarian, and a Dutchman play poker in Spain

I was legitimately thrilled that I got to write POTD #88 about a hand featuring pocket eights. I thought that once I cracked triple digits, I would no longer be able to play this matching game, but I neglected that #102-#109 can also be read as 10-2 or 10-9. Of course, like any reasonable person, when writing about poker hands I stylize “10” or “ten” as a T, but for this week and next, I will make an exception. There were no Doyle Brunson hands to write about and no “ten four good buddy” hands to write about. I wasted a T7s hand yesterday, but in the process found another T7s hand that I will write about next Tuesday. However, I did have a T3s hand that I’ve been meaning to write about for quite some time, but I struggled to find the exact HH or event that I played the hand.

Fortunately for me, the more tilted I am about a hand, the more specific I am when asking for advice from friends. If a hand is close and interesting, but I am making conversation on break, I might start off with “We’re 25-30 deep, I raise in middle position, I think the LJ.” If I’m steaming mad about a hand, you’re getting “26.5bbs deep I raise to 2.2x in the HJ, the BU has 15bbs, but everyone else covers me.” Well, I was steaming mad about this hand, so while I had to guess what blind level we were in, I am confident every other detail about the hand is correct. The other bit of kismet here is that I had yet to match the Dara O’Kearney hand I wrote about in POTD #41 with a hand of my own. That hand was a three-way pot where Dara had T3s; today’s hand is a three-way pot where I had T3s. What a great hand for POTD #103; just ignore the steam coming out of my ears as I recount this three-year-old hand that I’m still hopping mad about.

Triton Madrid € 30,000 No Limit Hold'em - 7-Handed (Event #2)
(2.5k/5k/5k) (SB/BB/BBA) Starting Stack 200k

Andras “Probirs” Nemeth (125k) makes it 11k UTG7, it folds to Tom Vogelsang (500k) in the CO who calls, it folds to me (400k) in the BB and I call T♥️3♥️

Flop (40k) T♣️3♣️2♦️: I check, Andras checks, Tom bets 13k, I call, Andras calls

Turn (79k) K♥️: I check, Andras checks, Tom checks

River (79k) 4♣️: I check, Andras bets 60k, Tom calls, I fold.

Andras has AK (I forget if he has a backdoor, I was too mad to notice). Tom mucks (or shows, I was too mad to notice, but I believe he said or showed K♣️J♦️)