Don’t use your illusion too much
Yesterday I played another evening in the $ .10 /.25 livegame. After what happened I can only conclude one thing: that table is cursed.
On my way to the place of evil I enjoyed the paradisiacal sounds of Guns ‘n Roses’ Use Your Illusion II on my headphone. In my opinion this is one of the best albums of all time and certainly of the nineties. Therefore and because my special fan Carl missed some music in the last contribution 
, I’ll tell something more about it. Use Your Illusion II is sometimes seen as the second part of the double-album Use You Illusion, but is in fact a separate album. I very much prefer this album to the other work of GNR because it contains a lot more than the simple straight-away rock they made before: it also integrates blues and classical music. Moreover there’s much more space for Axl playing the piano on this album which transforms GNR more or less from a hard rock band to a progressive rock band.
Besides the beautiful artwork, which is ofcourse a detail from the very famous painting The School of Athens (Raphael), the albums contains pieces of art like Civil War, 14 Years and especially the magnum opus of GNR: Estranged. This song lacks every aspect of the traditional verse-chorus-verse structure and its video (seen as the final part of a trilogy, after Don”t Cry and November Rain (both on Use Your Illusion I)) costed about eight million dollars.
After enjoying listening this, I arrived at the table (9-handed). The evening started terrific, as I picked up KK on the first hand. Altough the flop paired two aces, it was quickly clear my only remaining opponent didn’t have one of those other two babies in his hand and I took down a nice pot. Then began the horror. I picked up TT in middle position and the person UTG raised to € 1.10. The following two players also called and I also just called, as my hand had now become a drawing hand. Another two players behind me called, as they had good pot odds now. The flop came Js Td 8d. The preflop raiser checked and the next player betted €3. After a fold I made it €8 to call. One player behind me (chipleader) did so and the initial €3-raiser now shoved all-in for about €5 more. I shoved all-in over the top for about €4 more and was called by the opponent behind me. The clown in front of me showed 8c9c and the player behind me, who was gradually sucked into this pot, showed 8h9d. So I certainly wasn’t in bad shape with my set for a €60 pot, against two OESD’s. The turn came 4d and then…the river: Ad. The one with the 9 of diamonds took the pot which was made enormous by the other ”89 player”, what was he thinking with only bottom pair and the OESD? Well he sure used his illusion…
Tags: estranged, guns 'n roses, keep the pot small, low stakes livegame, use your illusion
november 1st, 2008 at 17:12
The all-in move itself isn’t that strange I think. If the pot was indeed that large, compared to his stack, and the person playing that 8c9c hand knew that he would get at least 2 callers, drawing such hand could be quite profitable once in a while.