Call of the century

From the razz portion of a HORSE sit-and-go recently completed.




I was just so convinced he was stealing that I was determined to call him down, almost no matter what. I knew making the call on 7th that if he had just one unpaired card lower than a 10 among his three down cards he would win. I decided that the chance that he didn't was worth the call. And whaddyaknow--I was right.

Or I might just be an idiotic calling station.



That's all I have to say about the hand. Now I have to say a word about how I got this animated for you.

I have lamented several times that there is no poker hand replayer that works for stud and razz hands. Tonight I did another search to see if perhaps that had changed, and found one here: http://www.universal-replayer.net/. It's kind of clunky, but it does a job that nothing else does (as far as I know), and even simulates the skin of whatever major poker site the hand occurred on.

The problem with it is that, as far as I can tell, it doesn't save or export the videos in any standard video format. So I downloaded a trial version of CaptureWiz here. That enabled me to make an .avi file from the replayer, upload it to YouTube, and then embed it above. Way more steps than such a task should require these days, but I don't know of any more straightforward way to accomplish it. Suggestions welcome. (CaptureWiz also apparently picked up whatever was coming in through my computer's built-in microphones and transferred it to the audio track, so that's the computer fan you hear whirring in the background. There's probably a way to stop that, but it's not important enough to me to spend any more time on it right now.)

Full hand history below for the obsessively interested:

*********** # 28 **************
PokerStars Game #26778907976: Tournament #153656543, $10+$1 HORSE (Razz Limit) - Level III (40/80) - 2009/04/06 3:41:53 ET
Table '153656543 1' 8-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Rakewell1 (1995 in chips)
Seat 2: Brandon518 (2178 in chips)
Seat 3: YaDunSon (1664 in chips)
Seat 4: Cardgrrl (836 in chips)
Seat 5: STERGEON (1250 in chips)
Seat 6: tuckmaniac (1631 in chips)
Seat 7: Qn58903 (1421 in chips)
Seat 8: fluffyflo (1025 in chips)
Cardgrrl: posts the ante 8
STERGEON: posts the ante 8
tuckmaniac: posts the ante 8
Qn58903: posts the ante 8
fluffyflo: posts the ante 8
Rakewell1: posts the ante 8
Brandon518: posts the ante 8
YaDunSon: posts the ante 8
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to Rakewell1 [6h Ah Ks]
Dealt to Brandon518 [Qh]
Dealt to YaDunSon [6d]
Dealt to Cardgrrl [Ac]
Dealt to STERGEON [4h]
Dealt to tuckmaniac [8s]
Dealt to Qn58903 [7h]
Dealt to fluffyflo [2d]
Rakewell1: brings in for 12
Brandon518: folds
YaDunSon: folds
Cardgrrl: folds
STERGEON: folds
tuckmaniac: folds
Qn58903: folds
fluffyflo: raises 28 to 40
Rakewell1: calls 28
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to Rakewell1 [6h Ah Ks] [4c]
Dealt to fluffyflo [2d] [3d]
fluffyflo: bets 40
Rakewell1: calls 40
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to Rakewell1 [6h Ah Ks 4c] [Ts]
Dealt to fluffyflo [2d 3d] [7c]
fluffyflo: bets 80
Rakewell1: calls 80
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to Rakewell1 [6h Ah Ks 4c Ts] [2h]
Dealt to fluffyflo [2d 3d 7c] [5h]
fluffyflo: bets 80
Rakewell1: calls 80
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to Rakewell1 [6h Ah Ks 4c Ts 2h] [As]
fluffyflo: bets 80
Rakewell1: calls 80
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fluffyflo: shows [Jh Qc 2d 3d 7c 5h 3h] (Lo: J,7,5,3,2)
Rakewell1: shows [6h Ah Ks 4c Ts 2h As] (Lo: T,6,4,2,A)
Rakewell1 collected 704 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 704 Rake 0
Seat 1: Rakewell1 showed [6h Ah Ks 4c Ts 2h As] and won (704) with Lo: T,6,4,2,A
Seat 2: Brandon518 folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 3: YaDunSon (button) folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Cardgrrl folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 5: STERGEON folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 6: tuckmaniac folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Qn58903 folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 8: fluffyflo showed [Jh Qc 2d 3d 7c 5h 3h] and lost with Lo: J,7,5,3,2