Dealing table 3 last night in the absence of my friend, Mike, who usually deals there, I was eliminated in 16th position just after we combined to 2 tables....4 tables total....around 36 players or so. I was looking forward to just playing but went out on the first hand dealt. At the first break I was in excellent shape with 4600 chips, double the starting stack. Of course there were many short stacks at that point with blinds now at 100/200 so you have to expect some shoves. I essentially went card dead and did not win a hand for over an hour. A new player was transferred to my table with a lot of chips and no clue. I had never seen him before and he was drunk, loud, and to my immediate right. He knocked out an excellent player who shoved 2000 with his A/9 suited to be called by this clown with A/3 suited. He was lucky enough to hit his 3 (also a 3 outer I might add). I was in the big blind (600) when this happened and that brought us to the table consolidation.
As bad luck would have it, I drew the big blind....just what a short stack does not want, and after posting had only 1200 behind. Mr. lucky loud drew the seat to my left, and limped in with A/3 suited (again) and the player next to him called with Q/10 off. Horrible plays on both their parts with the blinds so large. Anyway, the flop comes down king high with 2 hearts. I am holding K/9 off with no hearts. I shove and am called by both players. They check it down and Mr. Lucky hits an ace on the river. So basically he eliminated 2 players in a row with a weak suited ace/3 by hitting one of his cards. If the flops were reversed (hitting his ace the first time, the 3 the second), he would have lost both hands. Go figure.
I thought that I played well but shows what happens when you go card dead and desperate stacks start shoving. I have got to figure out a way to win some of those hands. It also illustrates the power of the shove as folded several weak ace hands much better than Mr. Lucky's.
As bad luck would have it, I drew the big blind....just what a short stack does not want, and after posting had only 1200 behind. Mr. lucky loud drew the seat to my left, and limped in with A/3 suited (again) and the player next to him called with Q/10 off. Horrible plays on both their parts with the blinds so large. Anyway, the flop comes down king high with 2 hearts. I am holding K/9 off with no hearts. I shove and am called by both players. They check it down and Mr. Lucky hits an ace on the river. So basically he eliminated 2 players in a row with a weak suited ace/3 by hitting one of his cards. If the flops were reversed (hitting his ace the first time, the 3 the second), he would have lost both hands. Go figure.
I thought that I played well but shows what happens when you go card dead and desperate stacks start shoving. I have got to figure out a way to win some of those hands. It also illustrates the power of the shove as folded several weak ace hands much better than Mr. Lucky's.
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