Tied for 1st place in Sunday No Limit Holdem Tournament
I have to admit I was a luckbox through part of it, and gave at least two people really bad beats, but to be fair on one of them I started with the best (44 vs A9) and ended with the best (set of 4's vs two pair) and it wasn't my fault that the flop and turn made it look like the other guy should have won it.
My first hand was 77 under the gun so I raised to 300 and got one caller. The flop was A74 which made his pair of Aces not quite as good as my set of 7s, I put in 500 and was called, then 1000 on the blank on the turn and was called, then 1500 on the 7 on the river and was called making my quad 7s pay me 3450 on the first had when we each started with 4000.
The rest of the tourney kept going like that for me, a combination of catching great cards and making good bets landed me with a commanding chip lead at the final table with almost no looking back. Once I took out the third place finisher, who went all in on middle pair of 4's and I called with top pair of 6's (the other card was a 2), I started to believe I was bullet proof. Bad move.
First hand heads-up the very experienced old man, with a snow white beard and a matching white duffers cap on his head, goes over the top of me with an all in bet when I try to just limp in on the button. I think for a bit and stack up the bet and decide to call with my Q2 off against his pair of 3s. Just one over and I don't hit it, because NOT BULLET PROOF, so now he is doubled up which puts his chip stack at just a little bit under mine.
At this point he offers up a chop and I accept since 1st place pays out $370 and 2nd pays $250 and after nearly evening him up and not being too sure about my heads-up experience vs. his I decide it is better to take the $310 instead of fighting it out for another who knows how long just to change the result by another $60 either way.
So by chopping I deprive myself of my 1st official tournament win since it is a tie, but I can live with that. I have now played this tourney 5 times and have made the final table 3 times, made 6th place 2 times, broken even 1 time, and tied for first 1 time. Other than that I cashed in a NLH Tourney in 3rd place at the 'lip back in 2004.
Not bad, lets see if I can do better.
My first hand was 77 under the gun so I raised to 300 and got one caller. The flop was A74 which made his pair of Aces not quite as good as my set of 7s, I put in 500 and was called, then 1000 on the blank on the turn and was called, then 1500 on the 7 on the river and was called making my quad 7s pay me 3450 on the first had when we each started with 4000.
The rest of the tourney kept going like that for me, a combination of catching great cards and making good bets landed me with a commanding chip lead at the final table with almost no looking back. Once I took out the third place finisher, who went all in on middle pair of 4's and I called with top pair of 6's (the other card was a 2), I started to believe I was bullet proof. Bad move.
First hand heads-up the very experienced old man, with a snow white beard and a matching white duffers cap on his head, goes over the top of me with an all in bet when I try to just limp in on the button. I think for a bit and stack up the bet and decide to call with my Q2 off against his pair of 3s. Just one over and I don't hit it, because NOT BULLET PROOF, so now he is doubled up which puts his chip stack at just a little bit under mine.
At this point he offers up a chop and I accept since 1st place pays out $370 and 2nd pays $250 and after nearly evening him up and not being too sure about my heads-up experience vs. his I decide it is better to take the $310 instead of fighting it out for another who knows how long just to change the result by another $60 either way.
So by chopping I deprive myself of my 1st official tournament win since it is a tie, but I can live with that. I have now played this tourney 5 times and have made the final table 3 times, made 6th place 2 times, broken even 1 time, and tied for first 1 time. Other than that I cashed in a NLH Tourney in 3rd place at the 'lip back in 2004.
Not bad, lets see if I can do better.