My Recent Tournaments, Part 2:
Category: Poker
The game I was involved with today, was a deeper stacked tournament than our usual, with 10,000 chips for each player, and as far as first hands dealt in a tournament go, (Ac,Kc) wasn’t bad. After a preflop raise and a tester bet on the flop of (5,6,Q), the reraise that came back at me was enough to dismiss any thoughts I had about stealing the pot.
My opponent showed (Ad,Qd), and was of course lucky to catch his queen on the flop.
The second hand dealt in the tournament, was one in which I have written a seperate article about in far more depth, so I shall not go through the gory details. In short though, it involved my (7,7) versus (9,9). Second biggest full house against my opponents top full house ensued, which by anyones standards, is a horrific way to start a tournament off.
I somehow escaped from these first two hands with 6,000 chips left intact, and spent the next hour and a half drifting between 5 and 6 thousand chips. I had taken to making big moves preflop when I picked up decent hands, showing (A,K) twice, (A,Q) once, and (J,J) once. When the blinds eventually went up another level, I decided to switch gears, and hopefully steal a couple of pots. One of the first of these hands involved me picking up (5d,7d) from the button, and moving all in once it had been folded round to me. My opponents had seen me earlier showing strong hands with this type of play, and my plan was that this would help dissuade any callers. Unfortunately one of the stronger players at our table had picked up (A,10) and sensed my weakness. He called, and after picking up a flush draw on the flop, I got no help from the turn and river, and was out.
Overall it has been a tough week for me in terms of live games, and so I have decided to take a week long break from poker. Hopefully, that is enough time for the apparent anger the poker gods have towards me at the moment, to subside.