Catching up with 3 weeks here, since I've been a bit lax on the blogging front.
Last week in October saw our final tourney for the season, and despite a strong start to the tournament, found myself on the bad end of all 4 races that I would eventually get involved in, and go on to finish 4th. May have been the most complete night of poker I had all season, but just got unlucky (you need a little luck to win a tournament, I always say)...that's poker.
November 1 - nothing of note, unless you consider busting out within 30 minutes to be noteworthy. Q-Q ran into A-Q, ace spiked on turn by Jovan-Donk, but at least I got an early night. Pat and Donald were 1-2 to start the new season.
November 8 - Much better result this week. Started off with 17 runners - won my first 3 hands I got involved in during level 1 to get to 50% over starting stack, all without a showdown. When down to 14 players, consolidated to 2 tables...I was holding over 4K in chips at this point.
Big hand of 100/200 level turned out to be the second hand in a row that I won, and this would get us to our final table of 10. First hand that I won was with K-Q of clubs after semi-bluffing the turn - got Bernie to fold pair of 3's. The next hand, 4 limpers into my big blind, where I raise to 800 with K-K....Bernie decided to tag along for the ride.
Flop of 3-3-9 hit, and Bernie bet 600...would be considered a donk bet if most players make it, but Bernie knows my style, and was just seeing where he stood. After calling the 600, another 9 hit the turn. Check by Bernie followed by my all-in for his last 2000 made him pause, and ultimately make the call with 4-4...and not surprised that his A-K read on me was wrong. Dodge his 4, and down to 10 we go, and I have over 10K in chips.
Stay pretty steady at the 10-11K mark until we get to 5-handed, where I decide to double Cheryl and Donald up, and 300-600 and less than 10BBs to go, forced to go into push or fold mold. Luckily for me, Slow Joe is on my immediate right, and almost never raises pre-flop, and will give lots of walks...which ultimately helps me stay in for a while here. Giving me more chances to pick my spots while not making me pay for it is bad strategy, tighties!
I get away from a 7-5-2 flop (2 clubs) with A-7 after Slow Joe does his "2x the pot" bet on me - after taking a couple of minutes and thinking it over, I tell Joe that his set is good. Dumb fukker flips over his 2-2 and says, "Trips, baby!" :-?
Down to 3 after Joe and Cheryl bust out to Pat at this point, and blinds just up to 500/1000. I double up through Donald after making a tough call with middle pair post-flop...and survive his A-Q when the board runs low. Donald gets knocked out by me on the next hand, when he shoves with a pair of jacks...too bad my Q-J was good for top two pair, and Pat and I move to heads up.
Pat goes card dead for most of HU...and gets a bit unlucky when his trapping with Q-Q to a board of unders gets sniffed out by me with top pair/shitty kicker. When the tourney was done, a bit of discussion about how I could fold my hand there ensued...couldn't explain exactly WHY I did it, but just had a feeling both after the flop and after the turn that something was up. Trust those guts once in a while.
Biggest hand of heads up involved my K-2 flopping trips on a 2-2-9 board, then turning quads...having Pat bet into me, and somehow buying my words as being gospel or something. Got paid off on the river when my 80%-pot bet was looked at as a bluff to his A-high. After this hand Pat was down to 3BBs
After surviving one all-in, Pat's run came to an end when 6-2 can't catch up to K-9...and win #14 is mine! Free eats for a month, gotta love it!
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Nothing of note on November 1st? How about bringing Dino's Poker back from the dead through the power of the written word? An Election Eve Miracle if there ever was one...= )
DOH! How could I forget that, Andy? Anyways, yeah - I'm talking more about my play in that phrase than anything, but that was quite a detail to leave out, for sure.
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