Last night I was in the casino playing a small cash game of texas holdem.  The game had been going on for a few hours and I was starting to get a bit tired, beginning to lose focus.  I had some good hands and some bad, and it was a fairly average evening of poker.  I was about to call it a night, when I had this hand, where I just tried my luck and I admit it was nothing to do with my poker skills… I just got lucky.  The kind of hand that makes you keep wanting to play poker.

My starting hand was an eight of hearts and a three of clubs… normally I would have chucked it, but I was bored and thought, time for some variations to my game… so I checked and stayed in the game…

The other players didn’t look too excited.

And then the flop came 3♠ 7♥ J♥

Still not too much to get excited about, there was a strong chance someone was sitting with a pair of hearts, but I hung in there and didn’t commit too much.

The turn card was 3♦, I was trying desperately to look cool.

Now did someone else have the 3 of hearts?  No-one was letting on…

Greg came on strong in the betting, but I decided to take him on… did he have the remaining three???

The river was K♣ which didn’t change much, unless someone had a pair of kings… ah why not lets take a chance..

Ended up taking it with the three threes… what a poker hand!!! Everyone was looking at everyone else thinking what does he have??  What should I do???  It seemed to take ages to play.  I was lucky none of them had a stronger hand and I took a chance…

Go and learn how to win at blackjack if you just want to play against the dealer…