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I played in a poker tournament last Friday night. It is a tournament held once every 4 months, and you have to win a qualifier to participate in it. Well, a while back, I won the Friday night qualifier and this weekend was the big show...and no, it wasn't online. I don't play online much anymore.
I showed up in my Brees Jersey. It's authentic and I pimp it. It's also good luck. I played well in the tournament and got a pretty good cheap lead going with about 15 players remaining; we started with about 50. It was cool to hear people talking about me and referring to me as "Brees". They were scared of the Breesus...
anyways...I grinded, bullied and out moved my competition to the final 2. The winner of the tournament got $4000...2nd place paid $1500. (it cost $25 to play in this). I went into the headsup match with a significant chip disadvantage b/c the other guy took 3rd and 4th place out in one hand. I battled my way back to get to an even stack and then this happened:
I limp in, on the button with T3 offsuit. My opponent tapped the table. Fairly unusual event as most pots were won or at least raised before the flop.
The Flop:
T 3 4
My opponent says "all in".
I do not hesistate, I call knowing that top and bottom pair in a spot like this is gold.
My opponent shows 94 off suit. I am way ahead. He has no draw...a 9 can't even help unless he catches running cards.
The Turn:
Blank
At this point, I am a 95% favorite to win...by the way, we are both all in as we have the EXACT same chip count...pretty crazy.
The River:
Can you believe it...the river was one of the last two 4s in the deck.
I lost.
I've been beaten by 2 outters before. I've been beaten by a one outter. I've lost holding a straight flush...but this bad beat...$2500, which is a lot of money for me, ranks at the very top.
I've never been so mad to win $1500. To make it worse, the guy was self serving after he won, telling me how he played in this tournament for 3 years and his daughter loves him, blah, blah, blah.
I bit my tongue, shook his hand, told him "good game" (which it was) and stood in shock staring at that 4. Poker can be a cruel game.
I showed up in my Brees Jersey. It's authentic and I pimp it. It's also good luck. I played well in the tournament and got a pretty good cheap lead going with about 15 players remaining; we started with about 50. It was cool to hear people talking about me and referring to me as "Brees". They were scared of the Breesus...
anyways...I grinded, bullied and out moved my competition to the final 2. The winner of the tournament got $4000...2nd place paid $1500. (it cost $25 to play in this). I went into the headsup match with a significant chip disadvantage b/c the other guy took 3rd and 4th place out in one hand. I battled my way back to get to an even stack and then this happened:
I limp in, on the button with T3 offsuit. My opponent tapped the table. Fairly unusual event as most pots were won or at least raised before the flop.
The Flop:
T 3 4
My opponent says "all in".
I do not hesistate, I call knowing that top and bottom pair in a spot like this is gold.
My opponent shows 94 off suit. I am way ahead. He has no draw...a 9 can't even help unless he catches running cards.
The Turn:
Blank
At this point, I am a 95% favorite to win...by the way, we are both all in as we have the EXACT same chip count...pretty crazy.
The River:
Can you believe it...the river was one of the last two 4s in the deck.
I lost.
I've been beaten by 2 outters before. I've been beaten by a one outter. I've lost holding a straight flush...but this bad beat...$2500, which is a lot of money for me, ranks at the very top.
I've never been so mad to win $1500. To make it worse, the guy was self serving after he won, telling me how he played in this tournament for 3 years and his daughter loves him, blah, blah, blah.
I bit my tongue, shook his hand, told him "good game" (which it was) and stood in shock staring at that 4. Poker can be a cruel game.