Home league event #7 was another successful night. The top leader board is looking interesting. Chris H. and I are tied with 77 points. I have to honestly say I basically gave Chris 2nd place finish. I played pretty loose and stupid toward the end of the game when there were still 4 players and shipping alot of my chips in his direction. I would have rather gave (and I was giving them away) my chips to either Derrick or Erick. Oh well, winning is always a plus, taking home the trophy for the tonight is always the game plan.
After 7 games the score board is interesting with 48 points between last place and first place.
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At the beginning of the game with all 9 of us still playing and two people in the hand the flop comes A-Q-4. Early player checks and player on button bets, EP raises all in and button thinks for a long time. He makes a comment that made me think he had a AQ, I was sure of it. I can't recall exactly what he said but I felt like he had top two pair and was confident with the hand. After this comment the other player tells him he is behind. Button player does make the call for all his chips and he turns over A 7. I WAS SHOCKED!
Calling all your chips early in a tournament like that with A 7. Wow. This player I know is a better player then he has been doing in this league. I do alot of stupid things in tournaments; I have no problem 3 betting a bluff, playing cards just because of position no matter what they are, even calling when I know I shouldn't just because I hope I can caught that stupid river or try to buy the pot on the next card, BUT calling all your chips with A 7 when you have to know you are behind with almost anything. Other player had pocket 4's and won the pot.
I'm not a good tournament player, I know this. I always say I'm a better cash game player so I have no right in criticizing another players game. It's just I know this guy well. I know his play well. I know he is better then that. I know he knows better then that. I was probably just as disappointed as he was when he was knocked out first. I still can't get that hand out of my mind. With all this said, I'm the poker player I am today because of this guy. We used to talk about poker all day at work. We used to share our hand history's and give each other our evaluation of the other person's play. This helped me be a better player and I hope it helped him also. We played online during our lunch hour, it was truly a eat, drink, play poker mind set from 8am - 5pm. I miss those days. My poker playing as not been the same without this great rapport between two players who had passion for the game. I still do, hope he does also. I miss those days.
I can see right now that Chris H. is going to be my nemesis for the next 11 months. I will conquer.
1 comment:
The only reason I can come up with the he would've called my check-raise all-in with A-7 is that he thought I was lying and that maybe I was trying to push him out of the hand. From one or two comments he's made to me at previous tourney's when we were in a hand together and I would make a big bet, he alluded to not believing me. So I think the image he has of me is that of someone who bluffs alot or tries to push people around without holding the nuts.
My comment to him prior to his call about me being ahead could've enforced that image of me as a bluffer in his mind, and might have enticed the call. But part of the reason I said that, is because if I'm ahead and all my chips are in, I would rather just take it down right then and there without seeing the turn and the river. Those two extra cards add too many variables that can easily change the outcome of the hand, even when the other person is a way behind after the flop.
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