Quick Chapter: The Last Bit of Friday
So Friday night, after the satellite, David and I grabbed some coffee and headed over to sign up for the $225 second chance tournament. As I said, I wasn’t a huge fan of the structure, but I came to Vegas to play tournaments, and there really aren’t that many options at 10:45 pm on a Friday night. I didn’t make it very far in the tournament, so I won’t make a long story of it (I know-fat chance). Suffice it to say that it was the only time over the course of the whole weekend that I felt like I really played poorly. For some reason I decided that I was going to try to limp a bit and hope to hit big on the flop. It didn’t work at all, and it wasn’t long before my stack was about T675 (you start with T1000). I did end up doubling up to about 1300, but things never really got any better than that.
I did catch something that the dealer missed. With blinds at 100-200, early position player, who seems like kind of an asshole, raises to 400. Fun, friendly late position player flat calls. Fold to the small blind, who pushes the rest of her chips in to make it 550 all day. EP player re-raises all in, and LP players pulls his chip cover off of his hole cards, ready to fold. “WAIT!” I say, and declare that EP can’t raise, as action hasn’t been reopened to him (SB had to make it 600 for him to re-raise). I explain it to the dealer, she explains it to the floor, and he confirms that yes, EP has to take his raise back.
The flop comes K-J-x, EP moves all in, LP calls, and they show AA and KJ respectively. EP goes home and LP thanks me profusely.
I do what I can to defend truth, justice and freedom in poker.
(Edit: Whoops, forgot to add my results:)
Session Time: 1:30
Session Total: -235
Cumulative Total: -1048
I did catch something that the dealer missed. With blinds at 100-200, early position player, who seems like kind of an asshole, raises to 400. Fun, friendly late position player flat calls. Fold to the small blind, who pushes the rest of her chips in to make it 550 all day. EP player re-raises all in, and LP players pulls his chip cover off of his hole cards, ready to fold. “WAIT!” I say, and declare that EP can’t raise, as action hasn’t been reopened to him (SB had to make it 600 for him to re-raise). I explain it to the dealer, she explains it to the floor, and he confirms that yes, EP has to take his raise back.
The flop comes K-J-x, EP moves all in, LP calls, and they show AA and KJ respectively. EP goes home and LP thanks me profusely.
I do what I can to defend truth, justice and freedom in poker.
(Edit: Whoops, forgot to add my results:)
Session Time: 1:30
Session Total: -235
Cumulative Total: -1048