Good evening poker friends !

I hope you all know The Blessed Trinity ? Well, I found it in poker too during an online session at PokerStars where I was just enjoying another session of frustrations when suddenly I saw the Holy Light. I had never seen it before, the three best starting hands in NL Texas Hold’em were dealt at the same time !! I don’t really know if it’s that common, but it was the first time that I saw that in my 4 years of playing poker. And I was even a part of it. Here’s how it went…

So I raised pretty standardly with my Cowboys and the Cut-off decided to smooth call with her Queens, she played pretty tight the hole time, before the small blind jammed his last few chips in the pot. I decided to flat call, maybe I should have raised there, and trap the other player. The flop looked pretty good to me so I just put her all-in. Great, she had the Nuts. The good news was the small blind had Aces , how sick was that. And of course, usual at PokerStars, he hit his 2-outer on the turn but they forget to deal my Jack on the river to crack two sets.

But it wasn’t over yet as I saw another piece of the Holy Light in the next hand. Unfortunately I just lost a big pot when my giant draw was again left for dead. So I started this special hand a little smaller than I hoped. No worries about the Smallball poker strategy though, just shove it in ! And so I did …

The player in second position made a pretty big opening raise, what nowadays usually means a lot of strength, but I shoved anyway with my Kings . Good the big blind called also, certainly when I hit Top Set on the flop, however the texture of the board was not safely. I became a little afraid when there was a lot of action on that flop and they both shoved. They both showed a very big hand, middle set against pocket Queens + gutshot  and against my Top Set. But I was a hugh favourite to make a very needed triple up. It became pretty funny and holy though when the Queen came on the river and we all had a Set I took the pot as the seven of hearts on the river was a blank. It was a very weird online poker week with those hands, but I’m not a saint yet so I’m certainly not hoping for more weeks like that !

As a conclusion, here are the next five songs out of my superb list, the Best 21st century Songs top-50 :

35/ Air Traffic – Time Goes By (2007, Fractured Life)

34/ dEUS – Favourite Game (2008, Vantage Point)

33/ White Lies – Death (2009, To Lose My Life)

32/ Arsenal – Lotuk (2008, Lotuk)

31/ Eels – That Look you Give That Guy (2009, Hombre Lobo)

Cheers,

J.M.