There’s an old saying: There’s no crying in baseball. But is there no crying in poker ? I was witness to an odd scene recently at a casino game of no limit hold ‘em that I never saw before. Two players were in a online poker hand, both slowplaying what seemed to be big hands by both of them on the flop and turn. Then the river came and the betting started wildly. They both ended up going all in and turning over their hands. One fellow had a full house, while the other one turned up four of a kind. Now, it certainly is disheartening to lose at the casino online with a full house, but it happens sometimes. But the fellow who lost then suddenly started weeping at the table! No one else really knew what to do or say, it was actually quite uncomfortable. The guy started saying how that was all the money he had saved up to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring, and now he had nothing and she would leave him. Who knows if it he was telling the truth, maybe he was trying to get the casino to give him money (which would never, ever, ever, happen) but either way it was a first for me, and I suspect everyone else at the table. Needless to say, the game of poker never gets boring, and you always see some surprising things.
