Weirdest live session ever

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I played $1/$3 for five hours Monday at the Portsmouth Rivers Casino. I bought in for $200 and cashed out for $298.

When I woke up this morning, it dawned on me that in five hours of steady play (I never took a break), I never once had a hand better than two pair. The dealers probably averaged 25-30 hands per hour, so that means out of 125-150 hands, I never had better than two pair. What are the odds of that?

I never hit a set out of the 10 or so pocket pairs I had. I had pocket Kings once and pocket Jacks twice and managed to win all three times. One of the jacks went to a showdown when I got jammed on pre-flop by a guy with pocket 8s. I won about $320 in that pot, which was my largest win of the day. The second time I had Jacks I 3-bet to $50 and everyone folded. When I got pocket Kings, I opened to $20 and got two callers. I bet $50 on a rainbow Q-8-3 flop and got one caller. I bet $100 on the turn and he folded. My biggest win came with A-K when the flop was A-K-7 rainbow. I jammed on the 8 turn, and a guy called me with K-8.

I got a steady diet of junk and a lot of J-9 and 8-9 suited, which I never connected with. A couple of times I hit a jack on a rainbow flop to give me top set with bad kicker, but won at least twice when everyone folded to my flop bet. Otherwise it was just a boring session.

 

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Update: Now I remember one hand where I hit a full house. I had pocket 6s and the flop came 6-5-3 rainbow. The turn was an ace and the river a 5 to give me the boat. I won a decent pot with that hand, too, as the guy to my left had an ace and thought he might be good when the river paired the board. He thought by my action I was betting an overpair to the six.

Otherwise, I never made better than two pair. I chased an open-ended straight several times and a flush a couple of times and never hit. I never turned any of my other pocket pairs into sets.

The previous time I played at this casino I got a straight flush and there were two sets of quads on the table during my five hours. Of course, they weren't having a high hand promotion then. But during this session, nobody at my table ever even hit a qualifying high hand (aces full or better).

 

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That sux about the lack of playable hands... Been there. I've noticed that what goes around comes around. When I have those defunct sessions, I try and tell myself that a really nice one will head my way and guess what, it did. I was flopping sets, straights, flushes, it was awesome.
I've also had sessions where I had to just "make" a hand, aka bluff. Sometimes they get through and sometimes not so much. Just keep grinding away, man. Always remember that "bettor"/better cards are on the way.

 

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Totally agree. It's almost a three-hour drive for me to get to the casino, and it stinks to drive that far and then spend an inordinate amount of time folding or limping into hands with junk and hoping the limp gets through and then hoping for a miracle flop. But a bad day at the tables is better than a day at work, for sure.