why we love poker.

So, I'm playing a heads up cash game, 5/10 limit. There's no betting cap. we put in - I kid you not - 17 raises before the flop. it's about half of our stacks (give or take). This means that , a pot that started out with 7.50 in it now has 200 in it, before the flop.

I had the only hand I could have there, pocket aces. After a while, maybe around raise # 10, I start to think he has the other two aces. if it was someone else, maybe I would have given him credit for aces earlier... but he wasn't very good and I really didn't think he had the other 2 aces (not that it mattered anyway, I want to get as much money in the pot as it humanly possible there, since if he has 2 aces, it's almost certainly a split pot))

He didn't.

Oh yeah, he didn't have 2 kings either.

Needless to say,. he was out of money not long after that.

There's no question the internet is a much tougher place to play than it used to be. The games are harder, for sure. But, as long as there is a guy like this around... it's still pretty good.