Sometimes poker really, really sucks. You get times (in my case quite often) when you just can't get anything going. You become card dead or get sucked on constantly, or end up running into bad spots time and time again.

But......

There are times when playing poker is great and you come across the occasional hand that you can talk about again and again and again.

Last night I had one of those hands.

In the grand scheme of things, the significance of the hand will hardly be life changing, the last hand of a $1 SitNGo, with a first prize of a princely $5, but oh how that prize was won!

If I had to give this hand a title it would be '4 into 1 does go, sometimes!'.

How to beat 3 players in one go! Here it is:

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iPoker Game 2869301170 / Tournament
Table Toronto - 2010-03-03 01:39:31
Blinds : 200/400
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4 players
[SB] SaDJesteRRR (2190)
[BB] RickyPluto (1485)
[1] pinheiropkr (2985)
[But] ordinarymark3 (8340)

ordinarymark3 Q 9 Initial Pot: 600

pinheiropkr calls 400
ordinarymark3 calls 400
SaDJesteRRR is All in
RickyPluto is All in
pinheiropkr calls 1790
ordinarymark3 is All in
pinheiropkr is All in
### FLOP ### 2 8 A Pot: 15000
### TURN ### 5 Pot: 15000
### RIVER ### K Pot: 15000
SaDJesteRRR shows Q A
RickyPluto shows 8 9
pinheiropkr shows A T
ordinarymark3 shows Q 9
ordinarymark3 wins 5355 from side pot n°1 with A Flush, ace high
ordinarymark3 wins 1590 from side pot n°2 with A Flush, ace high
ordinarymark3 wins 2115 from side pot n°3 with A Flush, ace high
ordinarymark3 wins 5940 from the main pot with A Flush, ace high