Played cards last night, and it had kind of a fun ending. Down to heads-up it was Fish and I left in the game. At the start, he had the chip lead. I took a few pots, to give myself the lead. One hand, he had moved all in preflop, and I decided to call with A6o. He says “good call” and flips over T8. The flop comes 9, 8, 8 and I’m dead to runner runner. The river was a T to give him a full house, which wasn’t necessary and actaully kind of mean, his set was enough. Anyway, he doubles, and I’m hurtin. Two hands later, I’m all in for less than the blinds. Fish calls with pocket 3’s, and I flip over 57o. The flop is 6, 8, 9 giving me the straight. I double up. A few hands go by, and Fish is short stacked again. He moves all in, and I call with AKo. He flips over KJo and I’m in great shape. Until, of course, the flop comes 3, J, J and he doubles up again. Back and forth, back and forth. We traded chips forever, then I dealt a hand and without either of us looking at our cards Fish says “how much are we playing for?” I tell him and he asks if I want to chop. He was a slight chip leader at this point, but time was more a factor for me. I asked the time, and he said it was 11:20pm. Good enough for me, let’s chop it up. So we split the pot.

We decide to play it out just to see what would have happened. Wouldn’t you know it, I look down at the hand that’s been sitting in front of me while we were chopping, and it’s pocket 7’s! SHIT! I tell him I would have gone all in the next hand, and he tells me he would have called with is TJo! We run the cards and the flop was Q, 9, 3 giving him an open ended straight. Turn card was an 8, and I was drawing dead! He would have made his straight on the turn and busted me! Heh, one more hand and it would have been over. We figured, we both had the other guy on the ropes multiple times, and the short stacked always sucked out, so we both should get something. We both win, and we get home at a decent time.