Three things going on in my life right now... school, wedding plans, and poker games. The wedding plans are on another blog, school isn't exciting enough to talk about, which leaves...
...poker.
Last Thursday, I found a new good luck charm at the poker table. Unfortunately I can' t put it on top of my cards, as the good luck charm is Meredith. At the Troy's house, she tagged along for Game 2, though she didn't play (this time.) We sat and watched Pappy take game 1 by sucking out about 4 or 5 times, then it was off to game 2 -- 8 players.
We started with 5,625 chips, and in the first three hands of the game, I was involved in pots of at least 3,500 chips on all three hands. I got jiggy with A-6 in middle position on the very first hand, and somehow convinced myself that I could buy the pot from Christy. No luck. I had a measly pair of sixes, and I can't remember what pair she had, but it was better than mine. I lost over 1/3 of my stack on the very first fucking hand!
Very next hand, Christy and I tangled again. She raised preflop with J-J, and I called with K-10 suited. I got lucky that she checked the 6-7-8 flop, giving me the free card on the turn, which was a 9. I got her to call to the river, and nearly made my money back from hand #1.
Very next hand, I limp from early position with Aces. (what's up with these cards?) I get 3 callers until it gets to Corky in the Big Blind, and I'm thinking "Great, I'll have no idea how to play this hand," assuming Corky will check too. But he raises from 100 to 300, which is a very small raise given the number of limpers. Hmmm, now I have to isolate and reraise. Given the knowledge I had at the time, 1,200 might have been about right, but I decided to make it look suspicious and made it 2,100. Corky thought about it for a while, then pushed all-in, saying he thought I was trying to buy it. But he was really trying to disguise his strength too, as he flipped over his K-K as soon as I quickly called with my A-A. The flop was all rags, and I had gone from 5,625 down to about 3,500, back to 5,600, and now over 11,000 in three hands.
My good fortune continued, as I won a race with 10-10 against Mark's all-in with A-Q, and later knocked Pappy out when I had 5-5 and he re-raised all in with K-K. I was pot committed and called, and caught a 5 on the flop.
I don't think I lost any significant hands the whole game, but Jeremy started picking up chips quickly and we ended up pretty even when it got down to heads-up. After about 5-6 hands of see-sawing, we decided to chop.
So thank you Meredith for bringing me good luck! Next time you'll have to play.
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you forgot the part about how i was abusing you in heads-up and had you on the ropes before we got kicked out and were forced to chop the pot
As I recall it, you won more pots than I did in heads-up, but the ones I took were bigger. :) I may have lost 5%-10% of my stack to you, but I didn't count the chips at either the beginning or the end. All I know is that I would've won...
DUKE SUCKS !!!
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