I Want to Hear Them!
Tell me what your worst beat at the poker table ever was. I want full details what happened, how it happened, and how you reacted to bad beat. If you don't have a bad beat story, tell me about a really good hand you had and how you played it out. Or if you are like me and have stories about both, let me hear them!
Cards at the Diner 1/26/08
Went and played in the usual Monday night game over on Middlebranch in Canton, Oh tonight. This night was not a profitable night money wise, but it was still fun. At the diner they have unlimited rebuys for the first three blind levels. This is nice because it builds up a nice prize pool because the people play reckless knowing they can just buy back in. I was not getting very good cards and couldn't bluff the reckless players off of their hands so I ended up rebuying twice and still did not win any prize money back. I left there the earliest I ever have since I started going there to play so that was kind of disapointing. The players there are not very good so it is usually pretty easy to get in the money and win.
Cards on Wilber Ave. 1/25/08
Went and played some Texas hold'em over at Kevin's house tonight on Wilber Ave. in North Canton, Oh. It was a good time as it always is when I'm playing poker. There were seven of us playing a hold'em cash game at his house. I ended up winning some money at the end of the night so that is always an added bonus to the fun. They play the 7-2 rule at his house. You might not know it, but 7-2 is the worst starting hand you can have when playing hold'em. The rule is, if you win the hand with 7-2 everyone at the table has to throw you some extra chips. I love this bonus as I am usually in there bluffing a lot so when you can extra chips for doing it it is even sweeter. It was kind of disappointing though because I never got 7-2 the whole night. I was hitting some lucky cards though. I was flopping sets every time I had a pocket pair and that almost never happens so I was winning a lot. I'll tell you about one hand. I pocket 7's in my hand and the flop was 10-7-3. One of the other guys bet all of his chips and I called and another guy bet all of his chips and I called. I had the 77, so I had three sevens. One of the guys had JJ, so that is all he had and the other guy had A-10, so he had a pair of tens. I ended up winning the hand the guy with JJ got so mad, I thought it was pretty funny. I scooped the chips and the guy that was mad left the game. I'll tell you about another hand that I played out. I had A-10 and another guy had 3-4. The flop was 10-3-4. I had top pair and he had two pair. He bet and I raised him as I know he likes to bluff into me a lot. I reraised me for all his chips because he knows that I bluff a lot. I decided to call and he ended up winning with the 3-4. I still don't know why he would be in there playing with a 3-4, but he'll end up losing more money than he'll make on it in the end. Thats all for this night, it was a fun night full of poker.
Cards at Crestline 1/21/08
Went and played in a tournament and cash game tonight in Crestline, Oh at Shenanigans Pub. The tournament was profitable as I agreed to split the prize three ways with the two people left in. It was a bounty tournament so you got extra money for every person you knocked out during tournament play. When you start the tournament you get a bounty chip and then when you get knocked out you have to give the bounty chip to the person that knocked you out. You collect these as you knock people out and turn in the ones you have collected from other people when ever you get knocked out. So potentially you can make money even if you do not win. I knocked out four people during the course of play, so I got to collect four bounties plus the prize money for winning the tournament.
The tournament was going pretty slow and I was not getting very many good hands but I was able to grind it out and make it to the final table. When the final table started I only had 3000 in chips and the blinds were 500/1000 and I drew to be the big blind in the first hand of the final table. This meant that I would have automatically put in 1500 in chips during the next two hands, leaving me with only 1500 in chips if I did not win one of the hands. They announced that the top eight people would get prize money and there were ten people left. Most people would have just gone all in only having 3000 in chips left while the other nine people had 5-10 times that many left. I decided to make a different play and try to get lucky. I folded the big and small blind hands so it would get to my deal. I wouldn't have to give up any chips until it got all the way back around. That is 10 free hands I got to look at to try to pick up a good hand or pick a so so hand and try to get lucky. It worked out well because the other people at the table were so aggressive that they knocked out people and let me sit there with just 1500 in chips. As more people got knocked out I was going to get a bigger prize. It worked out that five people got knocked out and I still had my original 1500 in chips left. I jokingly said to the other four people "want to split up the prize five ways?" and they just laughed and said no way. I won a few hands and then asked it again. They said no, no, no. Then I knocked one of them out and proposed a four way split and they still said no. We kept playing and one of them got knocked out and we kept playing. It was three handed and I had turned my measly 1500 chips into a big stack and the other two were asking me for a three way split. I agreed and we split it up and that was the end of the tournament. It was good time and the guys playing couldn't believe that I survived with that little stack of chips so long.
I then went over to play in the cash game. On Wednesdays, they play a bigger cash game so there is more money on the table and the players are really loose and crazy. This can be a great game to get in if you are catching some good cards you can make a lot of money. It didn't play out very well as I was not getting very good cards and bad beats kept hitting me all night. I ended up losing what I bought in for at the cash game and as my buddy I went with wasn't getting very lucky either we decided to drive back to Walsh. It was still a fun night and I'm sure I'll be back there next Wednesday.
The tournament was going pretty slow and I was not getting very many good hands but I was able to grind it out and make it to the final table. When the final table started I only had 3000 in chips and the blinds were 500/1000 and I drew to be the big blind in the first hand of the final table. This meant that I would have automatically put in 1500 in chips during the next two hands, leaving me with only 1500 in chips if I did not win one of the hands. They announced that the top eight people would get prize money and there were ten people left. Most people would have just gone all in only having 3000 in chips left while the other nine people had 5-10 times that many left. I decided to make a different play and try to get lucky. I folded the big and small blind hands so it would get to my deal. I wouldn't have to give up any chips until it got all the way back around. That is 10 free hands I got to look at to try to pick up a good hand or pick a so so hand and try to get lucky. It worked out well because the other people at the table were so aggressive that they knocked out people and let me sit there with just 1500 in chips. As more people got knocked out I was going to get a bigger prize. It worked out that five people got knocked out and I still had my original 1500 in chips left. I jokingly said to the other four people "want to split up the prize five ways?" and they just laughed and said no way. I won a few hands and then asked it again. They said no, no, no. Then I knocked one of them out and proposed a four way split and they still said no. We kept playing and one of them got knocked out and we kept playing. It was three handed and I had turned my measly 1500 chips into a big stack and the other two were asking me for a three way split. I agreed and we split it up and that was the end of the tournament. It was good time and the guys playing couldn't believe that I survived with that little stack of chips so long.
I then went over to play in the cash game. On Wednesdays, they play a bigger cash game so there is more money on the table and the players are really loose and crazy. This can be a great game to get in if you are catching some good cards you can make a lot of money. It didn't play out very well as I was not getting very good cards and bad beats kept hitting me all night. I ended up losing what I bought in for at the cash game and as my buddy I went with wasn't getting very lucky either we decided to drive back to Walsh. It was still a fun night and I'm sure I'll be back there next Wednesday.
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