Beating The Deep Stack Tournament

I am a happy girl! After only 5 tries (and making my money back last week) I split first place in the Tuesday night deep stack tournament at The Islands. I made a NET profit of $600 so I will be playing a long time on that kind of money - yippee!


I think I made a couple of guys mad while playing although I was quite nice and friendly to both of them at the time. I just don't think either one of them appreciated the way I played.


The first guy ran into my pocket aces on the button (I love aces on the button). Anyway, there were 2 limpers and Guy #1 raised to 300 (blinds were 100-200) in middle position. There was one caller and then I saw my aces on the button. Yippee! I reraised to 1,000 even. The 2 limpers folded and guy #1 stared at me for like 2 entire minutes and finally reraised me to 3,200. The one caller folded and the instant the action was back to me I simply said, "All in" and put my stack in the middle. It was early in the tournament and we started with 20,000 chips and I probably still had most of them, but I was not about to fool around and let him hit a set on me or something, so I just pushed. He looked super annoyed and folded almost immediately. He folded pocket jacks face up. I planned on folding face up also, but my cards flipped over in mid-air and landed face down.


Now, he was more annoyed. He wanted to see what I had. About three people at the table said (all at the same time), "She had aces". I never showed my hand, but they knew what I had. I did not confirm it. He was so annoyed. He kept saying he should have just called and seen a flop. A friend of his said, "What happens when you call and see a flop and the flop is 10 high? You lose all your chips." Guy #1 was miserable for about an hour, but he eventually got over it.


Guy #2 was drinking most of the night. At the first table he was to my right and I reraised him quite often (with what I thought was the best hand, not just because he was drinking) and I could tell he was getting annoyed with me, but he kept folding, so maybe he finally got the hint that he couldn't push me around, I don't know. Later at the final table, he kept getting slower and slower with his decision-making, which I am sure had something to do with the amount of alcohol he had consumed. He never got nasty or anything - just really super slow. I could tell that he was annoying others as well and not just me.

There was a hand I was not involved in that was making everyone crazy because he just would not make up his mind. I turned around and asked a guy that I knew who was watching whether or not I could call time if I wasn't in the hand. He said yes and I immediately turned around and said, "Dealer - time". Guy #2 just about came out of his chair and said, "What did I do? You are not even in the hand." I said (nicely I thought), "Sorry, but blinds keep going up and you are simply taking too much time with every decision." He said, "Wait until I get in a hand with you" and mucked his cards. I did not respond. He was involved in the next hand again and had time called on him again and after about 10 minutes he just went all-in and got busted. I firmly believe in not drinking alcohol when in a tournament. This probably would not have happened to the guy if he had not been drinking. He seemed like a nice fellow, but he was just so slow!!

Anyway, I ended up playing head's up with a nice young man named Nick and we traded chips back and forth for about 30 minutes and when it got to be 1:00 and we were pretty even, we decided to split it. I was tired but it was well worth it. Can't wait till next week!