Monday nights, I play poker in a free poker league. We play for points, and most of the people playing in the league play almost every night (man I wish I could do that!). Anyways, here is a fun hand I had happen.

I was acting in late position, I looked at my cards to find , , everyone had folded to me, just the small and big blind to act. The guy in the big blind is an aggressive player, and I was sure if I went all in he'd call with a marginal hand. So I moved all in. The small blind folded, and big blind guy called.

He had As 8d. So I felt good about the hand, I mean it's really close to 50/50, at least he only had one over card. (Wow, I actually just put the odds into an odds calculator on www.cardplayer.com, and I was 71.97% to 27.68% -- the hands would tie less than 1% of the time.)

Anyhow, the flop came:

   , ,

I think my opponent just saw his ace at first, because he seemed happy until he realized I had flopped quads. Four of a kind! The turn (which was irrelevant, there was no way I could lose at this point) was an , and the river produced the .

So the quads saved me. He had lost his hand a FULL HOUSE, aces full of eights. He muttered to himself, and left the table, a little annoyed I think.

Anyhow, it was one of those really fun hands that will statistically almost never happen.