Kelvined

Last night, I failed to keep my seeing the flop percentage under 60, and paid the price. The very night I blogged about the value of patience, I didn't display enough of it! However, that's not what sticks in my mind about last night's session. What does is the hand where I had the nuts that wasn't the nuts. The coldness of the deck towards me on that hand inspired the title of this post. Zero degrees Celsius, as was know, is the temperature at which water freezes. Reasonably chilly. Zero degrees Kelvin, however, is the coldest of the cold; it's also known as absolute zero. On the hand in question, the deck wasn't zero degrees Celsius cold; it was zero degrees Kelvin cold. In other words, I was Kelvined :-) Here's how it went down:

Table 'Altair VIII' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Seat 1 (39405 in chips)
Seat 2: Seat 2 (39500 in chips)
Seat 3: Seat 3 (12600 in chips)
Seat 4: Seat 4 (11700 in chips)
Seat 5: Seat 5 (39700 in chips)
Seat 6: neostreet (47341 in chips)
Seat 7: Seat 7 (12985 in chips)
Seat 8: Seat 8 (82901 in chips)
Seat 9: Seat 9 (56674 in chips)
Seat 8: posts small blind 100
Seat 9: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [As 4s]
Seat 1: calls 200
Seat 2: folds
Seat 3: calls 200
Seat 4: calls 200
Seat 5: folds
neostreet: calls 200
Seat 7: calls 200
Seat 8: calls 100
Seat 9: checks
*** FLOP *** [7s 3h 8h]
Seat 8: bets 200
Seat 9: calls 200
Seat 1: calls 200
Seat 3: calls 200
Seat 4: folds
neostreet: calls 200
Seat 7: calls 200
*** TURN *** [7s 3h 8h] [5s]
Seat 8: bets 1200
Seat 9: calls 1200
Seat 1: calls 1200
Seat 3: calls 1200
neostreet: calls 1200
Seat 7: folds
*** RIVER *** [7s 3h 8h 5s] [6s]
Seat 8: checks
Seat 9: bets 2200
Seat 1: calls 2200
Seat 3: raises 8800 to 11000 and is all-in
neostreet: raises 8800 to 19800
Seat 8: folds
Seat 9: folds
Seat 1: folds
Uncalled bet (8800) returned to neostreet
*** SHOW DOWN ***
neostreet: shows [As 4s] (a flush, Ace high)
Seat 3: shows [9s 8s] (a straight flush, Five to Nine)
Seat 3 collected 34500 from pot

It's highly likely that I would have gone all in on this hand no matter what, so I was lucky that Seat 3 started it with a small stack.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 108 hands and saw flop:
 - 13 out of 17 times while in big blind (76%)
 - 10 out of 15 times while in small blind (66%)
 - 51 out of 76 times in other positions (67%)
 - a total of 74 out of 108 (68%)
 Pots won at showdown - 9 of 23 (39%)
 Pots won without showdown - 10

delta: $-45,459
balance: $4,497,607