Monday, August 20, 2007
No limit hold'em = bye bye money
I played some of the dumbest poker I've played in a long time last weekend at Turning Stone Casino. I went with the intention of playing a few lighning poker tournaments and calling it a night. But, I decided it might be a good idea to jump on a no limit hold'em table for a bit just to see how I could do.
Things started out poorly, I sat down with the max buy in for the table, but the table had been going for awhile and I was pretty much the short stack at the table. I got raised out of almost every playable hand I had early on because I just didn't have the stacks to compete. I was quickly down to less than half of my buy-in and fading fast. So, I threw some more money on the table. I caught a run of good cards and eventually doubled up.
Then I got pocket 9's. Not the best hand ever, but not the worst either. There were two players besides myself in the hand, and one was all in from the get go. Flop was Q, 7, 5, or something like that. The guy across the table made a decent bet. I didn't think he had a queen, I figured he was trying to force me out of the pot because there was a decent amount in there already. So I just called.
Same story on the turn. Turn was junk, he raised big, I called. Finally the river, a 2 of clubs. Didn't help, didn't hurt. He went all in. I stupidly called. Of course he had a queen, I should have known that from the get go, but instead I threw away all of my money on one stupid hand. I can't help but think if I had reraised all in on the flop that he would have folded, but I guess I'll never know. Idiot!
Also, Turning Stone uses the ugliest poker clock I've ever seen. I hate it.
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