Riding the bubble
This past Saturday I played in a 60 person Texas Hold Em Tournament up in the Valencia area. It was a lot of fun and a touch intimidating as I had never played in a tourney that big before.
The people running the tournament asked if I could bring my poker table as they had about 80 people at the last one. Luckily my roommate Tim wanted to play and has an SUV, so we loaded it up and brought it along. That will be the last time I do that as A) there was no incentive for me to do so as I still had to pay for the hall fee (I thought I might get waived since I helped out by lugging the table) and B) I spent the whole night worrying that someone was going to spill stuff on my table. I was so happy when tables combined and they broke down my table. I'm kinda anal that way.
I started off slow and took down a couple of big pots early. But from then on it was a slow, bleeding-to-death existance as the blinds kept draining me and I had nothing to show for it. I was down to 1000 in chips (you start with 2000) and I made a big move late in the game with Ace-Jack off suit and tripled up. The blinds were doubling every 15 minutes and there were a lot of, shall we say, "partiers" at our table so they took a long time to make their play. With about 2000 in chips and the blinds at 500-1000 I made an all in move with Ace-10 suited and got called twice. One guy (who I swear was Martin Landau...check to Bela Legosi!) had Ace-2 suited but the second caller had pocket Kings. I was feeling OK as the flops had Aces in them more times than not in that game, but it was not to be. I was All In and All Out. The payouts started at 15th place and I came in 19th.
Ah well...better luck next time. Damn you Martin Landau!!!
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