Live tourney report

Went and played on Saturday night over at a charity poker room again - this time a $25 freezeout (5,000 chips), and this game made the Dino's game look like a total nitfest.

There was only 30 players, so only 3 places are getting paid. Oh wait, 4th place got a Party Poker hat for their troubles...whoopie-doo! Table draw seems alright - 3 young punks at other end of table from me, but generally an older crowd. I am told ahead of time about this one punk, Idiot Boy, who some say is the best player in the game...after less than an orbit I figure out that this is the guy I want to play a monster pot with later on.

At the 75/150 level, I double up from 4,300 chips after my A-J holds over K-J after I check-raised the flop with middle pair...one of the young punks calls me with a flush-draw. No help for him, and a huge double-up for me.

First hand of the 100/200 level sees me take 2,500 from Idiot Boy with a measely 7-7 after value-betting the river on a Q-3-4-10-8 board - and he snap-calls with A-K :-\

Couple of hands later, I knock out one player when I make a straight on the river...except I had thought I lost the hand to the other player's 2 pair, which got some abuse from punk Idiot Boy, along the lines of the "donk doesn't even know what he has". I sheepishly laugh the whole thing off - what could I do?

A few hands later, Idiot Boy doubles up an older lady when she hits quad 3s on the turn on a 3-3-8-3-J board...after both me and his buddy mock him about, oh, .2 seconds after he made the river call, I was reminded of one of my favorite YouTube clips of all-time, involving Kenna James and Mike Matusow:



Table break to 2 tables, and play pretty solid poker to chip up to 25,000 when we get to the final table. Boring final table, as a few blinds were stolen, some small pots won, but eventually we got down to four, where we all agreed to take $10 off each payout so the "bubble" would get a small profit to go along with the snazzy Party Poker hat.

And thank god for the deal, because only 2 hands after we get here, I re-raise UTG's raise with K-K, only to run into A-A - no suckout for me, and I leave up $5 and a crappy hat. I ended up leaving the hat for one of the other 3 to take, and left for the evening.

No Dino's this week - been running horribly in the game, and yet last week may have been one of my better weeks of play in a while, go figure.