My day started great yesterday. Enrolling in the Americas Cardroom freeroll along with 621 of my poker buddies, I managed to take down my 2nd win in this bad boy for a total of $2.50. While the money wasn't big, it does buy some entries into bigger tournaments. I am on a mission to roll the money up big time.
So, full of errr confidence I made the drive to Wheeler fully expecting to win there. I loosened up with my favorite "Old Chubb" dark beer and enjoyed the "Hog wings" appetizer. Unfortunately I was asked to deal table 3 as we had 21 players. Drinking the beer before dealing may have been a mistake as many errors were made by me. Fortunately only 3 had to bust out before my dealing was done. I lost a big pot the very first hand, raising with AJ, called by RB (stands for Rat Bastard) with A/10. Kept firing into the 10 high flop. Hmmm. So much for my continuation, however the problem was being out of position and really did not lose more than 1/3 of my stack due to the possibility that I had the overpair. Oh well, I never really gained traction in the tournament getting up to maybe 3 starting stacks maximum. Had QQ 3 times, winning twice mostly because of pre-flop folds, losing the third time to AK on a king high flop with 3 spades. I tanked for a bit when he bet big since I had the queen of spades, but made the good laydown.
Last hand, I am in the big blind for 800, with QJ of hearts. UTG makes it 3000 to go, everyone folds to me. I have only 1800 behind, will be in for 400 next hand. What do you think I did? Well, obviously since it was my final hand I called. He tabled AK off. I fully expected to see a small pair here with his large bet, but happy enough to get it in with live cards and suite. I failed to connect and his AK high won. I came in 6th place. Did not really play poorly, just never really got going. Ran the hand through my odds calculator and I was 40% to win pre-flop. Given stack size and blind situation was a great call.
So, full of errr confidence I made the drive to Wheeler fully expecting to win there. I loosened up with my favorite "Old Chubb" dark beer and enjoyed the "Hog wings" appetizer. Unfortunately I was asked to deal table 3 as we had 21 players. Drinking the beer before dealing may have been a mistake as many errors were made by me. Fortunately only 3 had to bust out before my dealing was done. I lost a big pot the very first hand, raising with AJ, called by RB (stands for Rat Bastard) with A/10. Kept firing into the 10 high flop. Hmmm. So much for my continuation, however the problem was being out of position and really did not lose more than 1/3 of my stack due to the possibility that I had the overpair. Oh well, I never really gained traction in the tournament getting up to maybe 3 starting stacks maximum. Had QQ 3 times, winning twice mostly because of pre-flop folds, losing the third time to AK on a king high flop with 3 spades. I tanked for a bit when he bet big since I had the queen of spades, but made the good laydown.
Last hand, I am in the big blind for 800, with QJ of hearts. UTG makes it 3000 to go, everyone folds to me. I have only 1800 behind, will be in for 400 next hand. What do you think I did? Well, obviously since it was my final hand I called. He tabled AK off. I fully expected to see a small pair here with his large bet, but happy enough to get it in with live cards and suite. I failed to connect and his AK high won. I came in 6th place. Did not really play poorly, just never really got going. Ran the hand through my odds calculator and I was 40% to win pre-flop. Given stack size and blind situation was a great call.
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