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Pocket Fives Are The Devil
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Author: Marc Weinberg
April 5 - I write this article on the 5th day of the month. I should have waited until May for the full numerological effect but I can hold my tongue no longer - pocket fives are the worst starting hand in Hold'em, and my hatred for them will be trumpeted around the globe.
This has nothing to do with that marvellous Internet poker resource, Pocket Fives.com, which ranks online poker players and has a truly entertaining community vibe to it. This has everything to do with 3 sick bad beats in a row sustained over the past two days, which cost me $2,555.00, roughly.
Now I am not a superstitious man although I was raised as one by a woman, my mother, who makes gypsies seem like rational human beings. If your nose became itchy you needed to shake hands because a fight would ensue otherwise. If your hand became itchy, however, that was excellent news because money was coming your way. Wearing socks and no shoes in the house was very unlucky as was putting shoes on a bed.
I'm not going to get into black cats, spilled salt, or the dreaded lighting of three candles with a single flame. But that was my upbringing and so I notice patterns of misfortune and enjoy blaming the patterns themselves as the source of my misery.
So it's not like I play pocket fives poorly. They are evil, and I am nothing more than their sport.
The first hand saw me in the big blind in a no limit cash game facing a typical preflop raise. The small blind, who was tight and had a lot of cash in front of him called and I called as well. The flop came 5-6-T. I remember it like it was yesterday because it was.
He checked, I checked and the original raiser bet the pot. The small blind called. I decided to leap into action and raised all-in for $400. Raiser folded and the call came behind me with...66.
The second hand was even worse. This time the flop came 5-7-T (very similar) and this time my all-in was called by JJ. The turn was a J. That one cost about $700.
The third time round saw my flopped set beaten by a straight made on the river. What annoys me is that I am an advocate of set mining for huge profits, especially in loose cash games. Hoist by my own petard, Shakespeare might note if he played poker and wanted to irritate me.
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