My little poker story from tonight

[brownsfan019 17]

I posted this over at et, but thought I'd share here as well...

 

 

Here's my exciting poker story to share - today I played in a local poker tourney at a home days festival. $50 buy in, $25 rebuy (unlimited in 1st hour and one more in the 2nd hour). The first hour I didn't have much to play and played a whole 2 rounds. Won one, lost one. Ended up needing to rebuy w/in the first hour. Total cost now at $75.

 

After the break and into the 2nd round (only one re-buy allowed), I was doing ok but got caught and ended up needing to rebuy one more time. And from there it looked bleak until I caught some nice cards and was able to slowly build back up.

 

Ended up making to the final table of 10 players. I am about average stacked at this point. Big/small blinds quickly force you to make some decisions and I won some nice sized hands to take the chip lead.

 

And then 'my moment' happened. I am last to act. First guy folds. 2nd guy makes decent bet. 3rd guy goes over the top, I think assuming no one else would come is as there was A LOT of folding going on. 4th folds. 5th is short stacked and goes all in. 6th & 7th calls, not all in (yet).

 

I'm sitting there with pocket A's.

 

I just go all in as my hands nervously shake.

 

Everyone that is not all in, goes all in and since I am big stack, if I win, 4 people are done.

 

And that's what happened!

 

My pocket rocket's held up and in one hand, I eliminate 4 people.

 

Wow, what a rush.

 

I know. This was a small local tourney with little money at stake, but for a guy like me that does not play much, it was a rush to be sitting there with pocket A's and all these bets are going into the pot. I couldn't believe it. I thought when I got them that I'd be lucky to get 1 person to play the hand with me.

 

I ended up tying for 1st.... I eliminated the 3rd place guy and the guy remaining and I just split the 1st and 2nd place money in half instead of playing heads up. It was his idea, and while I had a few more chips, I was ok with that as I suck at heads up. I have a lot of work to do on how to play heads up.

 

End result - cost was $100, walked out with $700. Not bad for a little local tourney!

 

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As a side note, I really enjoy the rush of playing poker. There's obviously some similarities to trading, but there's some distinct differences as well (esp playing in person) and it's fun. I enjoy it.

 

One of the guys at our table mentioned that he had played in a $1500 tourney in Vegas recently and it sounded like a nice tourney. I like the tournament style better than joining an existing table and seeing what you can do (which is what a lot of these local festivals are like).

[Nick1984 10]

You were really lucky to catch a couple of pocket A's as well as being last to act. Could you imagine if the guy didn't come in over the top of the first raise? You could of limped in and taken them out as well in one fell swoop.

 

I've found that playing pockets is a really tricky business unless you have Queens or higher cause the chances of someone making a pair with an over card is pretty high. But then again it depends on where you're playing from and who you're playing against.

 

Best thing is to be as cold as possible and try not to give away any tells (easier said than done) and play the player not their hands. Lots of guys who play the cards will lay down an AK if someone makes a big bet before them. You just need to suss the table out and take out the weakest player first and then move up.

 

I have a mate who doesn't even look at his cards very often. He pretends to do it but spends his time studying peoples faces 95% of the time and their body language to see if he can guess if they are strong or weak and he does really really well!

 

Good luck with the poker bro, one day if we all are rolling in money we can have a real life "TL" poker tourney in some Caribbean resort!

[Guest cooter]

[brownsfan019 17]

Nick,

I WISH I could just sit there and bet based on other people's emotions and tells. Wow, that would be great. I am the guy that tries to play it cool, but I have a lot to learn when it comes to poker. I really enjoy it, so hopefully my trading can fund my little hobby here. Maybe one day you'll see me on one of the many poker tours on TV.

 

And a TL no limit poker tourney sounds great some day!!!

[Blu-Ray 10]

And a TL no limit poker tourney sounds great some day!!!

 

Sounds good, but in the mean time we should set up a TL online poker tourney. I know James and yourself mentioned it a few months ago, but we should set it up.

 

The trouble would be for yourself and others that live in the US that can't play for real money, but surely we could set up a tourney where its for free and the winner wins some Amazon vouchers, like the video contest last month.

 

Just a thought and count me in;)

 

 

Blu-Ray

[Nick1984 10]

Yea it would be fun. The hardest part of that is the logistics of setting it up. On what day what time when everyone's free?

 

Brown the best part of playin in an online tourney is that you don't have to read us hehe.

[brownsfan019 17]

I am in!!

 

Someone needs to take the lead on this and set it up. I'm open to a free or cash game, if that's allowed in the US... :blushed: