BvB

This happens a lot more than you'd expect. You have to bear in mind that the BB has essentially a random hand:

PokerStars Game #17898396593: Tournament #90779403, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2008/06/03 - 20:37:51 (ET)
Table '90779403 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: MrSwanee (6995 in chips)
Seat 3: Sdanby (2525 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (3155 in chips)
Seat 6: Loki_068 (825 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
Loki_068: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As Jd]
MrSwanee: folds
Sdanby: folds
FR Vessant: raises 3005 to 3155 and is all-in

I would expect him to call quite a lot but to be ahead nearly always.

Loki_068: calls 675 and is all-in

But he has 66, which makes him favourite here.

Uncalled bet (2330) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [2c 5c 3s]
*** TURN *** [2c 5c 3s] [6s]
FR Vessant said, "jeez"

Now that was a bit much. A set even!


*** RIVER *** [2c 5c 3s 6s] [Qs]

These things really do cut into your ROI. I should have been ITM here with a very decent stack. Instead, I end up really up against it and BB steals a couple of pots and gets level with me.

It doesn't help either that I have the two bigger stacks to my left, so that I am BB when the 7K stack is button. He raises my blind often but does not raise from the CO into the other shorty's blind. He occasionally limps, which is horrible. I also cannot raise from the button much, because bigstack is in the BB. Sucks.