Last week was a busy week for me by way of meetings and poker, but there are not too many interesting things to blog about.
I played in the Commerce Guaranteed Million Dollar Tournament where they had 5 Day 1s and people could enter and cash up to five times. I entered Day 1A and got there right near the end of Level 3. You could re-buy up until Level 4, which started after a 15 minute break.
Right before break I was dealt Queens and ended up a few hundred short of a full double up. So that brought me to almost 8K. It’s tough with these tournaments where you only start with 4K-there isn’t much room to wiggle. In Level 4 I just played Kings and Jacks, bringing me to over 10K. Then, the next hand I remember playing, I think I was on the button with AK. The guy in the cutoff had raised and I re-popped him. Everyone else folded and he called my raise.
So let’s review my image thus far. I’ve only played three very big hands thus giving me a very tight image at this table, because there just wasn’t need to do otherwise so far. Ok-the flop comes out A-9-7 rainbow. He checks and I bet out 3K if I remember right. He then thinks a bit and pushes all-in. WHAT? He had me covered just barely at this point. I thought forever and this is where I made my mistake. I’m thinking maybe he called my pre-flop raise with 7s or 9s, but not really sure he would. A-9 and A-7 seem even more unlikely to me. Maybe he has a big pocket pair, in which case I’m golden. Maybe he and I have the same hand. I just felt like I was good. I called and flipped my hand over. He looks at me and flips his over…9-7.
WHAT??? You called my raise with 9-7???? And this was an older gentleman, not a young, aggressive internet kid. Not a table bully. Just a guy who had seemed to play pretty solid…up until now. No-now that he takes a chance with a way worse hand he gets rewarded with a flop that not only has his 2-pair, but a card that gets him paid off! I guess you can tell that the last 2 cards didn’t help me and that was it for me with about 200 people left in the tournament. It paid to about 54 I believe that day. I should have laid it down I guess, but I had a lot invested in the pot already and that’s the flop I wanted to see. So that was frustrating.
Then, same day, I went to Hustler and played in a tourney they had going with a big guarantee. Continue Reading »
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