Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:52 am Posts: 2401 Location: Cape Cod
This didn't really seem to fit in the online poker thread, so anyways, here it goes.
Went on vacation with the family to AC and took two trips to play poker. Knowing that my strengths lie in tourney play and not cash games, that's the way i went.
Monday night sat in the 50+10 tourney at the Showboat. Very nice room, great dealers. Tourney drew 57 players and right away I knew that there were some real sharks and big fish out there, so i went after the fish and stayed away from the sharks as best i could. Got lucky twice midway through the tournament. My Ac7c beat pocket 10s with as i rivered the flush to double up. THen later on a big stack seemed to be bullying, i was getting lower (400/800 blinds, stack around 7,500). I pushed with eights, got called by Ks and flopped trips.
Made final table and played really tight until we got down to five. There I took the chip lead. Down to four I was cruising until the guy in second place knocked out the third and fourth guys in one hand and suddenly i was down 2-to-1. Heads up lasted one hand. In small blind I called with 10/7 off, the bb checked. Flop came out 10 high, I pushed, he called with Ad10d and it held for him. Nice trick by him not raising with a huge heads up hand.
Cashed for $712.
Thursday went to Bally's for the 6pm 60+15 tourney. Much smaller crowd as it drew only 24 players and much worse play. I don't want to say it was easy, but I rolled to the final five, but it was paying just 3. In fourth place I went all in with A7, got called by KQ and and ace and seven flopped and I was in good shape. Made it into the money (top three) we decided to chop it (1380 prize pool) to 400/480/500. When it was heads up we were tired, and dead even. It was a really friendly game so we decided to stick it all in preflop and decided a winner on how the cards fell. He won the coin flip and again I took second. I really felt I played very well in that tournament. I busted seven players, which was nearly a third of the field.
All in all, a great trip. My first time in casinos and I netted well over a grand. I had to brag a bit and tell you guys it's fun down there.
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rich wrote:
This didn't really seem to fit in the online poker thread, so anyways, here it goes.
Went on vacation with the family to AC and took two trips to play poker. Knowing that my strengths lie in tourney play and not cash games, that's the way i went.
Monday night sat in the 50+10 tourney at the Showboat. Very nice room, great dealers. Tourney drew 57 players and right away I knew that there were some real sharks and big fish out there, so i went after the fish and stayed away from the sharks as best i could. Got lucky twice midway through the tournament. My Ac7c beat pocket 10s with as i rivered the flush to double up. THen later on a big stack seemed to be bullying, i was getting lower (400/800 blinds, stack around 7,500). I pushed with eights, got called by Ks and flopped trips.
Made final table and played really tight until we got down to five. There I took the chip lead. Down to four I was cruising until the guy in second place knocked out the third and fourth guys in one hand and suddenly i was down 2-to-1. Heads up lasted one hand. In small blind I called with 10/7 off, the bb checked. Flop came out 10 high, I pushed, he called with Ad10d and it held for him. Nice trick by him not raising with a huge heads up hand.
Cashed for $712.
Thursday went to Bally's for the 6pm 60+15 tourney. Much smaller crowd as it drew only 24 players and much worse play. I don't want to say it was easy, but I rolled to the final five, but it was paying just 3. In fourth place I went all in with A7, got called by KQ and and ace and seven flopped and I was in good shape. Made it into the money (top three) we decided to chop it (1380 prize pool) to 400/480/500. When it was heads up we were tired, and dead even. It was a really friendly game so we decided to stick it all in preflop and decided a winner on how the cards fell. He won the coin flip and again I took second. I really felt I played very well in that tournament. I busted seven players, which was nearly a third of the field.
All in all, a great trip. My first time in casinos and I netted well over a grand. I had to brag a bit and tell you guys it's fun down there.
nice work, rich... livin up to your screenname, i see
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:52 am Posts: 2401 Location: Cape Cod
pearljamminagain wrote:
rich wrote:
This didn't really seem to fit in the online poker thread, so anyways, here it goes.
Went on vacation with the family to AC and took two trips to play poker. Knowing that my strengths lie in tourney play and not cash games, that's the way i went.
Monday night sat in the 50+10 tourney at the Showboat. Very nice room, great dealers. Tourney drew 57 players and right away I knew that there were some real sharks and big fish out there, so i went after the fish and stayed away from the sharks as best i could. Got lucky twice midway through the tournament. My Ac7c beat pocket 10s with as i rivered the flush to double up. THen later on a big stack seemed to be bullying, i was getting lower (400/800 blinds, stack around 7,500). I pushed with eights, got called by Ks and flopped trips.
Made final table and played really tight until we got down to five. There I took the chip lead. Down to four I was cruising until the guy in second place knocked out the third and fourth guys in one hand and suddenly i was down 2-to-1. Heads up lasted one hand. In small blind I called with 10/7 off, the bb checked. Flop came out 10 high, I pushed, he called with Ad10d and it held for him. Nice trick by him not raising with a huge heads up hand.
Cashed for $712.
Thursday went to Bally's for the 6pm 60+15 tourney. Much smaller crowd as it drew only 24 players and much worse play. I don't want to say it was easy, but I rolled to the final five, but it was paying just 3. In fourth place I went all in with A7, got called by KQ and and ace and seven flopped and I was in good shape. Made it into the money (top three) we decided to chop it (1380 prize pool) to 400/480/500. When it was heads up we were tired, and dead even. It was a really friendly game so we decided to stick it all in preflop and decided a winner on how the cards fell. He won the coin flip and again I took second. I really felt I played very well in that tournament. I busted seven players, which was nearly a third of the field.
All in all, a great trip. My first time in casinos and I netted well over a grand. I had to brag a bit and tell you guys it's fun down there.
nice work, rich... livin up to your screenname, i see
thanks, it was pretty cool. Amazing how different the vibe is when you sit down in front of actual people for a tournament against strangers in that kind of a setting. Anyone else got any good casino stories?
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kusko_andy wrote:
When you cracked the guy's KK with your 88, did he say anything or get pissed off? Call you a luck box, or a donk, or anything exciting like that?
I would highly doubt it.
The thing is, I don't know why so many people bitch about donks and fish. Face it, they are the ones that pay our bills in the long run. The less talent around, the better off the solid poker player is, imo.
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kusko_andy wrote:
When you cracked the guy's KK with your 88, did he say anything or get pissed off? Call you a luck box, or a donk, or anything exciting like that?
I always wonder if people in a real casino tournament would talk as much trash and whine and bitch as much as they do online.
No he was cool with it. You can't do well in these tournaments without getting lucky at some point. He had been bullying a bit and thought he had picked a great spot against a pretty tight player to make a move, which he actually did. I got lucky and he shrugged it off. Basically with the way the cards had gone, even if he just had called my bet, I probably would have moved all in on the flop with my set and he probably would have called with his kings being an overpair to the board.
Luck has a way of balancing out, too. Last night at my home game I had QQ and pushed all-in for my final 2,000 chips. The guy to my left thought about my re-raise on him and called my bet and flipped over Kh-10h, which is a very loose call in my opinion. I ended up hitting a third queen but he rivered a straight to knock me out. I played it right, but he got very lucky.
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rich wrote:
This didn't really seem to fit in the online poker thread, so anyways, here it goes.
Went on vacation with the family to AC and took two trips to play poker. Knowing that my strengths lie in tourney play and not cash games, that's the way i went.
Monday night sat in the 50+10 tourney at the Showboat. Very nice room, great dealers. Tourney drew 57 players and right away I knew that there were some real sharks and big fish out there, so i went after the fish and stayed away from the sharks as best i could. Got lucky twice midway through the tournament. My Ac7c beat pocket 10s with as i rivered the flush to double up. THen later on a big stack seemed to be bullying, i was getting lower (400/800 blinds, stack around 7,500). I pushed with eights, got called by Ks and flopped trips.
Made final table and played really tight until we got down to five. There I took the chip lead. Down to four I was cruising until the guy in second place knocked out the third and fourth guys in one hand and suddenly i was down 2-to-1. Heads up lasted one hand. In small blind I called with 10/7 off, the bb checked. Flop came out 10 high, I pushed, he called with Ad10d and it held for him. Nice trick by him not raising with a huge heads up hand.
Cashed for $712.
Thursday went to Bally's for the 6pm 60+15 tourney. Much smaller crowd as it drew only 24 players and much worse play. I don't want to say it was easy, but I rolled to the final five, but it was paying just 3. In fourth place I went all in with A7, got called by KQ and and ace and seven flopped and I was in good shape. Made it into the money (top three) we decided to chop it (1380 prize pool) to 400/480/500. When it was heads up we were tired, and dead even. It was a really friendly game so we decided to stick it all in preflop and decided a winner on how the cards fell. He won the coin flip and again I took second. I really felt I played very well in that tournament. I busted seven players, which was nearly a third of the field.
All in all, a great trip. My first time in casinos and I netted well over a grand. I had to brag a bit and tell you guys it's fun down there.
next time your coming out let me know so you can lose to real player. the best part is i will drink jack and cokes the whole time, laugh and joke then take your chips like candy from a baby
i love the serious guys at the tables, hoods up, sunglasses on. then they cant believe it when a weak hand flops out and breaks their little wannabe pro hearts while i am ordering another drink
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