Sunday, April 06, 2008

Kobayashi Maru

Day 4: $200 Ladies Only No-limit Hold'em
I sat among the women... I was accepted as one of them! Not one read or funny look! If they knew, they didn't dare say or treat me differently. If that's not passing a real-life test, I don't know what is!

Back to poker. I won every hand I played. I won every hand I bet. I had a run of cold cards you read about. Seriously... 52, 23, 42, J3, Q2, 72, 54, 32, K2, T4, 52, T6... and so on and on and on and on...

I bluffed a few of those hands, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that in the 6 hours I survived that horrible run of cards, I only had 3 legitimately playable hands! After seeing flops, I never regretted folding, and most of the times there wasn't a flop, my opponents were kind enough to show the table cards that had me dominated. I couldn't have played any better, won any more chips, and yet, I lost.

In the end, I was two hands away from being blinded all-in when I took a stand with my KQ. I was about 2000 chips above the starting stack of 2500, but the blinds were 3000 and 1500, or my whole stack. In other words, if I did nothing, I would out of the tournament in two more hands. So my KQ was looking pretty good and, with a caller before me, I raised all-in, playing for pot odds of more than 12,000 chips when the superstar to my left capped my bet with AJ.

I should mention that she just arrived at the table with more chips in one stack than we had at the entire table! Seriously... she had over 40,000 chips just in one stack... we barely had 30,000 among us all... it was a slow table. My raise all in to her wasn't even a noticeable bet.

Anyway, I flop my King (huzzah!), and the lady to my right folded AJ (huzzah!), giving me pretty good odds to win, but an Ace fell on the turn along with my last hope of making it out to Vegas.

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