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2008-06-12 22:22:17
Another Game, Another Cash
Well, I thought I was going to be able to keep the streak alive, but I didn't win last night's game. I had the chip lead for most of the tourney, too, but the blinds crept up and the end and I refused to call away over half my stack with mediocre hands. Turns out, maybe I should have...
Ridiculous Hand
I forget the order, but Tony, Adrian, and Dave get all in preflop with similar stacks. Tony and Dave had a side pot for about 550. Tony flips over
, Dave flips over 
and Adrian has 
. Wow.The flop comes
. Oh man!The turn is the
. What?!The river is the
. The room erupts.Set over set over set is about a 1-in-421 chance of happening. And in reverse order, no less... What a tease. At least the hands finished in the same order that they started - nobody suffered a suck-out :p
Call?
I had been playing unusually tight, but either nobody noticed it or the fact that I had four top-10 hands in the first 4 or 5 blind round disguised it (even though I showed 3 of them down). My goal was to try and get into the mindset I'll need to do well in Vegas at the end of the month (more on that later).
At this point I was either the chip leader or close, and was feeling pretty healthy at 10k or so. If I remember correctly, the blinds were at 200/400 and I was in middle position. I looked down to see
and raised it up to 1300. The button and small blind called. The flop came 
- not the worst flop possible, but I did not like the ace much at all.The big blind checked, and it was up to me and the button. The button had about 4k left, and he is a good enough player to take a shot at this pot without an ace. He is a relatively tight player, so any pocket pair as well as a good ace are in his range. If I put out a feeler bet of 2-3k, and he went all in, I was committed against him, and there was still another player left to act (the big blind). If I bet and he folded, I didn't make any money, and the big blind could still raise me for almost my whole stack (he could have
or something like that. It seemed good to check and if the button bets, see what the big blind does. If the blind folds, I can put on my thinking cap.I decided all of this quickly enough to make a quick check in succession to the big blind, and the button immediately went all in, which was followed by a prompt fold from the big blind. I counted my chips again, measured up where I'd be at if I was wrong, and thought... I really wanted to believe I was beat - saving chips is like making chips. He probably didn't have
due to the cards that were out, but he could easily have a big enough ace or decided to get fun on the button with a weak ace.I thought some more... My gut told me to fold, to not risk my chip lead, but the way his chips went in and his posture made me want to call. Strong means weak, right? I had called him down in a similar position before, and it was reasonable to believe he had a pocket pair. I ended up calling and he showed
.Blinded
As the blinds catapulted up, I kept folding. Every time I wanted to make a stand, I made the right lay-down, I think. I had
against 
and 
against 
. Or sometimes just absolute crap like 
. I guess if it can win the main event, I should consider it. Hah, I think I folded 
, too. Anyway, I finally put all my chips in with 
against 
and lost. Boo!!! Suck It!
That last heading was for those in the know. If you weren't at the game last night, don't worry about it :) What was it, Alexis,
? Something like that...
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