My Run in Biloxi Last Week

I have to just followup on last night's post. Yes I did play the second half of my last session poorly. But I also had a few recent wins to talk about. Last week we went to Biloxi for the Spring Break Poker week. I played in 2 of the noon tournaments. The first day i felt badly all day and had trouble concentrating. I did surprisingly well for feeling so bad and being card dead for about 2 hours, but I did not cash.

The next day, feeling all better, I hit a $200 noon event. I made a mistake early on from which i did a good job of recovering. Then I hit my hand. I raised with TJ and got 2 callers. The flop came 89Q. The big bling checked. I led out with a bet. The button folded. And the big blind shoved all in. He had me covered by a mile. He had just knocked out another player by hitting a 2 outer to make a bigger full house than his opponent. Of course, I have the nuts here and am not going anywhere. This is my chance for a double up that has me sitting pretty. He shows 2 hearts. He just shoved with a heart draw! The Kc hit the turn. Whew dodged a bullet there. Then a heart came crashing down on the river to eliminate me from the tournament. Ugh. I felt just awful, but I know there's no other way to play it when you flop the nuts. I mean I gotta take the chance here for a double up and my opponent only has a 30% chance to catch against my made hand. Well, I still felt bad.

That night I played a little live action at the IP. There was a donkey at the table. He was stuck for $900. He left for a little and then came back with $300 more and lost it on the first hand. Stuck for $1200 he rebought, but I was tired and needed some sleep. I went to bed a mere $100 ahead in that $1-$2 no(imit game.

The next day I woke up, packed my things, loaded the car and head over to the IP poker room. Ahhh, one seat was open just to the left of the same donkey who had been there when I left the night before. Wearing the same clothes, I figured his style and his luck couldn't have improved. I sat with him to my right and bought in for $300. I picked up AQ. He raised. I reraised to isolate. And the fun began. I started taking down pot after pot, sometimes making my raises to $150 preflop with just AQ. But it worked. The other whiney men at the table could nothing but watch as a "girl" was getiing all the donkey's money. Oh they were making all kinds of wise cracks about me, but I knew exactly what i was doing. I mean, hey, the donkey was so bad, that half the time he would simply fold on the river and I would take down the pot by default! In 45 minutes I made $900. Then we went to have breakfast.

After breakfast, we played in a small $70 tourney at the IP. I played really well, although one of the whiney babies from the cash game was at my table complaining about how bad I played. Ha! Let me tell you just how bad! Everyone folds to me in the cutoff. I raise with 78. Mr. Whiney Baby calls from the small blind with 9T. The Big blind calls with 4h5h. The flop was something like 9hThblank. Small blind makes a weak bet. The big blind calls. And I call with favorable pot odds and even better implied odds. The turn lands  6d. I have the nuts here and the Small blind make a biggish bet. The big blind calls. Right here I shove. You see these two guys both got to start the tournament with 3000 more chips than me and I want to make up that disadvantage. Mr. Whiney Baby calls with 2 pair. The big blind folds his flush draw and I more than double up, leaving Mr. Whiney Baby with just his 3000 extra chips and a lot of crying about how far I was behind when I had the nuts! LOL. I went on to finish in the top 4 of that tournament. We chopped when we got to the last four. 3 of us took $408. The chip leader took $448. I was very pleased because I received almost the equivalent of second place money.

All in all I finished the trip ahead despite my bad run in the 2 tournaments that I played at the Beau.