Back to the tables!

Posted on October 22, 2005 
Filed Under Poker

Well, I guess I should start of with an update to the hockey weekend. DAMN, what a weekend!

It started on Friday, we had a morning game, which, isn’t usually a good thing for us. Historically, we’ve never done well in the morning games. And, true to form, we blew a lead in the 3rd period to lose by a goal. After the game, everybody went back to their rooms, showered and then headed over to my place for a poker tournament. I ended up chopping the pot with one of the guys.

After poker, we had second hockey game on Friday evening. The game before ours was running almost an hour behind, so, we didn’t finish up until pretty late. (we lost this game by 1 goal, too) We then went out for the team dinner. We left the reastaurant at about 2AM. We headed over to Palace Station where we played Pai Gow until about 6:30 AM. We too took a cab home after a full evening of drinking and slept until about noon on Saturday. Our daughter had a singing performance that we went to Saturday afternoon before we went to our 3rd, and final hockey game. We tied this last game which left us no shot at making the championship game on Sunday. Probably just as well. I was tired as all hell!

We were planning to go back out with the group after the 3rd game, but, by the time we got home and showered, we were pretty much toast! We decided to just kick back at the house instead.

On Sunday, we got up and went to Sunset Station for a $50 buy-in tourney. I felt I played really well and ended up getting unlucky in 3 key pots. I still finished in 4th place which put me in the money, but, I felt I should have won this tourney outright.

Here are the 3 key hands:

Hand 1: 6 players left. First player to act moves all in for about 4 times the Big Blind. I have some big stacks behind me and I don’t mind if any of them come in to the pot, so I just call with A/A. Everybody folds and we turn up the cards. I have the guy crushed with his pocket 8s. The board comes out:
2/3/4/5/6
Split the pot.

Hand 2: 5 players remaining. The BB is all-in pre-flop for less than the cost of the BB. I have pocket 4s. I move all in to isolate the guy heads up. everybody folds. He turns over his cards… pocket 5s. Bad timing.

Hand 3: 4 players remaining. The blinds are 800/1600. The BB has a total of 1700 chips. So, he’s going all-in no matter what 2 cards he has. I want his 1700 chips, so I raise to 4000 with K/K. Everybody else folds and he flips over his cards… 2/3. Of course, both a 2 and a 3 hit the board and he takes 1700 chips of mine.

OK, enough about that… Over the past few nights I’ve also been playing online a bit. I’ve played in about five 3-table tourneys. I’ve finished 1st twice, 3rd once, 6th once and around 15th in the last one. So, perhaps the slide I’ve been on playing online may be over. I’m testing my luck now. We’ll see how it goes…

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One Response to “Back to the tables!”

  1. Poodle on October 24th, 2005 5:18 pm

    I’m going to be playing in one of the Ultimate Poker Challenge events in a few weeks. Have you considered it? It’s $500+$50, and all final tables are televised.

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