My friend Grady "Triple Gutter" Wiggins passed away early this morning after a brief but valiant battle with cancer.
He made life more interesting. He certainly made playing poker more fun. He made me laugh. Anybody who can make other people laugh is OK in my book. Most important - he was a good guy and a good friend. He would give you the shirt off his back if you asked him and didn't care if you ever gave him yours.
He was a good guy and I will miss him dearly. See you later at that big poker game in the sky, Triple. Play good!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Would you fold this hand?
I was rolling along at the Wildhorse tournament on Friday with about 9500 in chips with blinds at 100-200 and a 25 ante. The chip average was 9000 so I wasn't looking bad.
On my small blind the HUGE chip leader at our table raised to 750. Everyone folded to my neighbor on the right who reraised all-in for 10,000 even. This was a huge reraise and I simply didn't believe he had a very big hand because I'd seen some of his reraised hands before. He had also called an all-in of mine when he was holding K-10 offsuit. (I had aces and they held up.)
So when I looked down at QQ I stopped and thought for about 30 seconds. Because of my previous knowledge of this player I simply decided I could not fold and also went all-in. The first guy folded A-K face up.
My opponent also had A-K. This made me feel pretty good. The flop was 10-8-3 rainbow. He stood up. The turn was a jack. He picked up his magazine, said "Nice hand, good luck" and started to walk away. I immediately sensed that I was doomed. The ace hit on the river.
Would you have folded queens in this spot for all your chips with a raise and a reraise in front of you? I later folded queens in the Saturday morning tournament at the Moose in the same situation. (I would have won the hand with a set on the river. Tom had gone all-in with K-9 and Roland reraised with JJ.) I went on to win that tournament so it paid for my trip to Pendleton, but still . . . .
I hate hindsight. I think I should have folded.
On my small blind the HUGE chip leader at our table raised to 750. Everyone folded to my neighbor on the right who reraised all-in for 10,000 even. This was a huge reraise and I simply didn't believe he had a very big hand because I'd seen some of his reraised hands before. He had also called an all-in of mine when he was holding K-10 offsuit. (I had aces and they held up.)
So when I looked down at QQ I stopped and thought for about 30 seconds. Because of my previous knowledge of this player I simply decided I could not fold and also went all-in. The first guy folded A-K face up.
My opponent also had A-K. This made me feel pretty good. The flop was 10-8-3 rainbow. He stood up. The turn was a jack. He picked up his magazine, said "Nice hand, good luck" and started to walk away. I immediately sensed that I was doomed. The ace hit on the river.
Would you have folded queens in this spot for all your chips with a raise and a reraise in front of you? I later folded queens in the Saturday morning tournament at the Moose in the same situation. (I would have won the hand with a set on the river. Tom had gone all-in with K-9 and Roland reraised with JJ.) I went on to win that tournament so it paid for my trip to Pendleton, but still . . . .
I hate hindsight. I think I should have folded.
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