My friend Dr. Phil has been having tough going online lately. Perhaps my little tale of woe will lighten his mood a bit.
I was playing in the $35 deep stack turbo (10-minute blinds, 20,000 chips) at Jokers last night and proceeding nicely, but still had only my original starting stack after the first break.
Shortly after the break, with blinds of 500-1000, SIX people decided to limp in on my big blind. This is unacceptable when I have pocket sevens. I decided that I had the best hand and pushed all my chips into the middle. Everyone folded except Dave on the button who insta-called me with A-K. Drat. Naturally, he flopped an ace and I was finished.
However, I still think I made the right play. I also do not know how Dave insta-called me there unless he thought I was just making a move to pick up all the dead money. I'll never know because I didn't even get the chance to open my mouth to tell him I had a pair before he called me. Ouch.
Poker is fun . . . poker is fun . . . poker is fun . . . repeat endlessly until pain is gone.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Ladies Tournament
The Island Casino has a new ladies-only tournament on Thursday nights. It is only $20 so it never pays very much, but for $20, who cares? It give me a chance to practice and costs basically nothing.
Last night was the 3rd week. In week one, I busted out before the final table. Last week I took second place for a profit (after buy-in and dealer tip) of $100. Last night I took first place for a profit of $120. (There weren't as many players and we paid third place $30, but I can't complain.)
I do not know how I feel about ladies-only tournaments. On the one hand, I feel that I have an edge because it seems like most of them are just there for the cheap entertainment and/or girls night out and very few of them really care about playing a good game. For example, one lady called a rather large raise (pocket jacks) with a K-4 offsuit and flopped 2 pair and thought she was playing well. Ick.
On the other hand, I think playing in ladies-only tournaments is not good for women. I firmly believe that we play just as well (if not better) than most men and we should just storm the castle as it were and take the bull by the horns and never play ladies-only tournaments. I am torn. Any thoughts out there?
On a side note, in the Tuesday night deepstack (also at Islands) there were 40 players and only 4 of them were women. Three of those women were at the final table. When we got down to 4 players it was 50-50 men/women and we agreed to a 4-way split. Not bad ladies!!
Last night was the 3rd week. In week one, I busted out before the final table. Last week I took second place for a profit (after buy-in and dealer tip) of $100. Last night I took first place for a profit of $120. (There weren't as many players and we paid third place $30, but I can't complain.)
I do not know how I feel about ladies-only tournaments. On the one hand, I feel that I have an edge because it seems like most of them are just there for the cheap entertainment and/or girls night out and very few of them really care about playing a good game. For example, one lady called a rather large raise (pocket jacks) with a K-4 offsuit and flopped 2 pair and thought she was playing well. Ick.
On the other hand, I think playing in ladies-only tournaments is not good for women. I firmly believe that we play just as well (if not better) than most men and we should just storm the castle as it were and take the bull by the horns and never play ladies-only tournaments. I am torn. Any thoughts out there?
On a side note, in the Tuesday night deepstack (also at Islands) there were 40 players and only 4 of them were women. Three of those women were at the final table. When we got down to 4 players it was 50-50 men/women and we agreed to a 4-way split. Not bad ladies!!
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