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 A Tourney & Good Times at the Belle, FeliciaLee, 4. Dec 2003 07:57 | ||
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| Monday, November 17, 2003 We arrived early to play in the hold'em tourney. I greeted all of my poker friends around the room. There is this one older guy (59), Dan, who is a solid rock. He makes a little bit of money, and genuinely seems to enjoy poker, for it's own sake. Dan told me once that he hates tourneys, he never plays in them. So, of course, from then on I had to exploit that. Every tourney day, I make a little joke about him playing the tourneys. "Dan, I hear the tourney is going to sell out fast tonight, don't forget to get your seat!" He takes my ribbing very well and seems to like the attention. Do you remember Bob, the senior I told you about who is so bad at poker that he is actually "trying to break the rebuy record?" At first I thought he was kidding, but he is absolutely serious. He has heard that the most rebuys before the break was nine, and he is striving to make it ten. Anyway, poor Bob got so sick this fall that he was in the hospital for a few weeks with pneumonia :( He is not one of the elderly, but he does have Diabetes, which I have talked about so many times. Bob is back with us, and I am happy to have his rebuy money, and him, in good health. I drew a pretty good table on Monday. I was in the eight seat, and the table was soft. Pat, a middle-aged lesbian in the area, sat to my left in the nine. Pat is very predictable and tight. We got to talk quite a bit during the tourney. I got lots of premium pairs to end my horrible streak from Saturday. Thank God! The aces held up, but my kings were busted twice. Both times I lost "tiny" pots, knowing I was beat right when the ace flopped (and confirming it, since both hands went to the river with other players). My reads were pretty good at this table. My table ended up being the "final" table. I love it when Doug runs the tourneys, because he tries to make the back (warmer) table, the final table, versus the front (freezing) table. There is also less glaring spotlights in our faces, and no railbirds three deep. I completely understand Ward's use of the front table in order to "advertise" the room. It is a great strategy, but it is soooo cold up there. I made a few moves in the NL portion of the tourney, and stayed ahead of the blinds. Then my premium hands started getting outdrawn, on the river, against all-in players. Blah. I was struggling to stay in the tourney. Actually, I shouldn't say "blah," since I do play well on a short stack. I managed to "survive," a la Sklansky, until we got to the final table. I was in the money, albeit tenth place only paid about $75, lol. I took some chances and doubled up a couple of times. It seemed like every time I was in the big blind, I had to go all-in, either before the flop or after. I survived. I was the shortest stack going into the final table, but I kept managing to fold and/or all-in blind my way up the ladder. One player didn't want to discuss any deal, unless he got a LOT of the first place money. He kept this stance when he was shortstacked, he kept this stance when he was the chip lead. In almost every hand, the leaders changed. The blinds are just sooo high when we get to those levels. So I could be the chip lead by far one hand, then be out of the tourney two hands later. It has happened a lot. Anyway, it doesn't bother me in the slightest if someone doesn't want to deal. It used to, when I tried so hard to explain to the tourists that the blinds versus the amount of total chips on the table was making the tourney a crapshoot. Now I have just gotten used to the fact that there is always usually one person at the final table who just doesn't understand. I leave it be. Who cares, I am in the money more often than I should be (mathmatically), anyway. So we played on. Sure enough, Mr. No-Deal swung from chip lead to all-in, several times. I kept hanging on, then doubling up again in my blinds. I could not catch a starting hand for squat. I had 83, 94, 65, 73, 74, hand after hand. Any ace and I would have been all-in. Any pair and I would have gone for it. Anything, basically, besides the very worst starting hands. I guess it is a good thing I was receiving junk, because I kept moving up on the pay scale. I went from tenth place to sixth place, folding every hand save the blinds. Finally we were down to five. Still no deal. I was dealt A9o, UTG, and shoved in. Who would have thought that the big blind had AJo? IGHN :) Not a bad deal for a girl who was hanging on by her toenails for at least an hour, lol. I walked out $150 richer, not having done any rebuys. The grumpy non-dealing dude kept holding out, until the top three gave him what he wanted, which was all of first place save $200. They split the rest. He was the chip lead, once again, having just won a huge pot with his stinky-poo playing. They gave him what he wanted, $900, then he gave the dealers a $15 tip. Lovely. Dude, I am willing to say that what goes around, comes around. I doubt anyone will make a deal with him again at the Belle. The 4/8 game had broken by the time I ended the tourney. Glenn wasn't enjoying Omaha anymore (for that night), so we decided to take off. Everyone is all in an uproar about Ward getting hit and Cabbie getting banned from the Belle. For some reason, the story has been completely twisted to make Ward look like the bad guy. Dealers are even in on this vicious gossip. I wanted to LOL when one dealer was in the box. He has told me from the time we entered the Belle for the first time that he doesn't play poker anymore. He said he just dealt too long, and had no interest. Well, anyway, he was moaning and groaning about the fact that Ward took away his playing "privilege" at the Belle, and how he liked a good game of poker, blah, blah. I hate it when people gossip and add fuel to an already, out of control, fire. Larry found my poker journal. He wants you all to know that last week when I said he told me someone would be all-in on the very first hand of the Omaha tourney, what he really said was that the pot would be raised, pre-flop, on the first hand. He was right, on either count, as we all know :) Larry is sweet, and I'm so glad to have him around the Belle. The Belle poker room is getting remodeled. Gossip told me that James petitioned for a larger poker room, closer to the main entrance of the Belle, with 20 tables. I don't think that is going to happen, lol, but supposedly a total remodel is in the works, and three of those tiny, seven-handed Stud tables are going to be replaced with the bigger, nine-handed hold'em tables. Yippee! Go Belle! Felicia :) | ||
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