Doctor Straight wins Jade Tavern Flagship Friday game

[Doctor Straight]

After a lean month of March, tonight I returned to thewinner's circle by taking out the Jade Tavern Fridaynight flagship $110 game. I made a magnificent straight with two players all into a board of 843, I held 56 and the 7 on the river gaveme the nut 8-high Doctor and sent two tricky opponents tothe rail. I thought in all my years of playing pokerthat I've made every legendary straight that I can butthat one was a straight for the ages. Earlier a river T on a board of AJ64T (me KQ) gave memore fun nut Doctor action. I thought my opponent waspot-committed, but he laid down his hand that he'd beenbetting all the way. Possibly he was observant enoughto know that if there's a possible straight, thenI'll have that straight. Soon after, one of the great poker songs, Dr Alban's"Sing Hallelujah" came on the TV screens. I was singingalong to the backing chorus, except instead of singing"Sing it" with them I was grooving along singing "Send it". High card poker was good to me all night- I won some hugepre-flop confrontations with AK besting KK, AQ over JJ andin an interesting hand I held the case T on a board ofTT7QT, and it held up. Someone in early position bet all-in on theriver to me, I can't quite explain my feelings but my poker instinctsjust told me I was ahead. The poker gods had some fun with me though, with AK all inlosing to A5 (ouch) and a turned flush losing to two-pairfour-out rivering a full house (yeeeouch). That's poker, Iguess. I have a lot more fun chasing straights. 33 other players joined me for this event. My luck atnon-skill games such as sports betting and the pool competitionwasn't so good, but the amounts involved were so small comparedto the poker money that I wouldn't call it my leak, I'd call itmy drip.

[Strong Play]

Another comprehensive performance from the Doctor... nh sir.