Interesting hand in a live home game on Saturday night, the conversation in the forum about Coolers triggered me to post this hand for the world to see.

We are playing a $50NL home game, most pots build up to about $20 a hand, lots of limpers, lots of raiser/re-raisers AND we were short handed Saturday, only 5 of us playing.

Table was pretty tilted one way, our host (relatively good player in my opinion) was our big stack, I was #2 and had made back a buy-in I lost when big stack had cracked my pair of kings earlier in the evening.  that was sick, I was all in pre-flop, he called me down with an A8o and hit his Ace on the Turn...so sad for me.

Anyway, on to the cooler hand that took my remaining two buy-in's for the night (yes, I going home early and $150 poorer). 

I am in the Big Blind, our host is to my left, everyone had a hand, so when it hit me, I defended my Jc9c and raised the pot to $4.

Our host, calls me, everyone else folds.

Deck comes up AJ9 rainbow, I bet $10, host raises me to $20.  I am out of position but with two pair, I call his additional $10 (at this point, gonna cost me 10 bucks to win about 50)

Turn hits J; I think sweet candy, I bet all in, our host thinks for a bit and calls me; I am sure I have him at this point;

I flip over my full boat, our host flips over his AA for a significantly better full boat and I am on my way out the door.

All I can say is stuff happens AND I certainly mind losing, but I mind losing less to my friends because I can always make them buy me a consolation beer...

Your online opponents cannot mock you like your friends can but they also cannot buy you beer

Later,

Pete