The Good: Mostly, I am playing well and doing OK. I took 2nd place at the free ladies-only tournament at The Island last Thursday; 4th place at the 10:00 a.m. Crazy Moose tournment last Saturday; went out on the bubble (bummer) at Jokers on the same day; took 3rd place at the Cable Bridge on Sunday; and 2nd place (als0 at the Cable) on Monday.
The Bad #1: The Tournament of Champions (Cable Bridge) sucked. I got no traction and only outlasted 2 tables. I must have seen J-2 offsuit thirteen times in the first hour. GAK!!
The Ugly: My reading ability seems to have suddenly gone south and I made a TERRIBLE call during the Tuesday night deep stack tournament at the Island. There were about 4 limpers, so I raised to $250 in the small blind with A-K of spades. Blinds were 50-100. Everyone called, which didn't really surprise me because it was early. The flop was A-3-3 with 2 hearts. Everyone check to me and I bet $800 with top pair top kicker. Two folds - two calls.
The turn brought a 10 of diamonds. The two remaining guys checked to me again. I bet $3,000. One guy folded after a long thought process and the other guy called after another long thought process. (I found out later it was an Oscar-worthy performance.) The river brought the queen of diamonds and my remaining opponent IMMEDIATELY went all-in.
This stopped me dead in my tracks with shock and surprise. It was my turn for the long thought process. My first instinct told me that he was bluffing because he had moved all-in so fast. My next thought was that he had been on the nut heart draw with the king-jack of hearts and the queen of diamonds had given him a straight, but then I thought, "Would he really call $3,000 on this draw?" He might. Never once did I put him on a three. Even though I had won a few earlier pots and I would not go broke, I was only into this pot a little over $4,000 and I should NEVER have called under any circumstances unless I had the nuts. NEVER. I did call and he had quad threes. OUCH!!!!! I only had about $2,200 left after that fiasco.
I made a terrific comeback and lasted well over another hour after the dinner break, but eventually got knocked out by the same guy. This time he limped with pocket aces for God's sake. I had A-K with the ace of clubs. The flop was K-J-3 and I pushed all-in after it was checked to me. Pocket aces actually thought for a little while because he kept talking about how he thought I had K-J and had flopped 2 pair, but it was only $5,300 more to him and he had a monster chip stack and he called. I was amazed to see the rockets mainly because 99% of the time people do not limp with them. Anyway, I had hope with another club on the turn, but I got knocked out. It was a very disappointing performance on my part. At least I got the $65 dinner - :)
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Yes, it was a very bad call...which we all make periodically. I am ticked about the 7:00 cable getting knocked out calling an all in with my AQ vs. 22, and 5/7 suited (deuces held up). At least I chopped the 5:00 omaha tournment, so not a complete loss :)
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