My recent Tournaments, Part 1:
Category: Poker
On Wednesday, I met the usual crowd at our local venue for the weekly live freezeout game. I can honestly that the first hour stood out above anything I have experienced, in terms of not finding a hand. I can say with complete honesty that the highest Ace I saw in my hole cards was (A,4) off, and I was dealt one pair, of (5,5), in the first hour. My stack had slid from a 6,000 starting stack, to 3,000, and I had two crazy, loose players at my table preventing me from really doing anything creative about my predicament.
Luckily enough after the first break, I sat down to (A,Q), and after shoving all in from middle position and picking up the blinds, my chipstack was looking marginally better.
I must point out here, that I wouldn’t normally play (A,Q) quite so fast from middle position, but with the two wild characters at my table itching to reraise just about anyone…I felt it best to set my stall out there and then.
After nursing my stack back to a slightly healthier 4,000 I picked up a hand of (Js,Qs). In the big blind, with two limpers, I decided to take a flop. The rainbow flop then came down (3,7,Q) and as it was checked to one of the crazy players to my right, I just knew he was going to raise, no matter what he had. So when he bet out 500, I pushed all in over the top, feeling that the other players check was genuine weakness. Needless to say, it was folded to the 500 raiser, who then called for the rest of my chips. He then proceeded to turn over a feeble (Q,2) off, and spike a 2 on the river to end my tournament.
All in all, not a hand, or a poker tournament I wish to spend too much time reminiscing about.