Not an early night
Oct. 24th, 2005 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksWell, 87th out of 1470 isn't bad, even if a third of them didn't turn up. Went nowhere for the last hour and a half, surviving on stolen blinds and continuation bets with hands that missed. So, all-in-all, a pleasing performance. The crippling all-in was with KQs (blinds 800-1600, antes, er, 75 I think. I had 14,000 chips out of 2.8m in play). Got called by a shorter stack in the small blind who turned up with Ace-Nine. This man is a fool!
That left me with 4,000 and I quickly went all-in UTG with Q6 off. Another fool decided to reraise all-in for 27,000 with 77 (fair enough - I would have done the same, although I wish he hadn't done it against me). A flop of AK6T with three of my Queen's suit gave me a fraction of a second's unbridled optimism (I'm about 7-to-4 against with a card to come), but a red deuce, was no use, as they say in the trade.
Fortunately my cross-booking with Andy Ward means that he now owes me a Pokerstars cap and tee-shirt. Okay, only joking.
The question really is, why did I bother? I have a Rio Karma, so I don't need a mini Ipod. I would never have time to play on the X-Box. I already have a widescreen 1920 x 1200 LCD screen (prizes 2 to 9), and, if I had won the $12,000 first prize trip to the Caribbean, I'm not sure that I could have fitted it in with my holiday in Vegas.
Good fun though, particularly the short period when GRobman was at my table. He arrived with 19,000 when Top Stack was about 30K. He then raised every hand that I didn't, and then got Aces and a flop of 535 rainbow. This was always going to be in trouble against a player who had limped with 55.
Enough.
Bed.
That left me with 4,000 and I quickly went all-in UTG with Q6 off. Another fool decided to reraise all-in for 27,000 with 77 (fair enough - I would have done the same, although I wish he hadn't done it against me). A flop of AK6T with three of my Queen's suit gave me a fraction of a second's unbridled optimism (I'm about 7-to-4 against with a card to come), but a red deuce, was no use, as they say in the trade.
Fortunately my cross-booking with Andy Ward means that he now owes me a Pokerstars cap and tee-shirt. Okay, only joking.
The question really is, why did I bother? I have a Rio Karma, so I don't need a mini Ipod. I would never have time to play on the X-Box. I already have a widescreen 1920 x 1200 LCD screen (prizes 2 to 9), and, if I had won the $12,000 first prize trip to the Caribbean, I'm not sure that I could have fitted it in with my holiday in Vegas.
Good fun though, particularly the short period when GRobman was at my table. He arrived with 19,000 when Top Stack was about 30K. He then raised every hand that I didn't, and then got Aces and a flop of 535 rainbow. This was always going to be in trouble against a player who had limped with 55.
Enough.
Bed.
