After staying out at the bar and sleeping in today, I did not get working on the garage like I had hoped I would do. Instead I did my shopping trip that I have been putting off for the last couple weeks. I decided that I would get it done today. That was a two hundred dollar trip. <\/p>\n
When I was done putting everything away I made myself some dinner. I was planning on getting something from the Emerald, but after spending all that money and getting all the stuff I got I decided that I eat at home.<\/p>\n
Around seven o’clock pm I went to get some pop and then to Peter and Brandon’s from some poker. Brandon was out of town. It was Peter and some other guys who work at Dissmores. I maintained and grew mu chip stack only losing one pretty big chunk on a hand I figured I was behind, but I tried to push the other guy around.<\/p>\n
I built back from that loss to maintain a reasonable stack compared to everyone else. At one point near the middle of the tournament, Peter and I were in with one other person. The big blind was one buck. I raised two bucks. Peter raised it to eight. I went all-in. Peter called. He quickly flipped bullets. I had the exact same hand. So the flop was academic. There was a chance for a four card flush to his the board and help the guy who was that Ace, but they did not happen. So we ended up splitting other peoples’ blinds.<\/p>\n
Soon it was down to three of us. I was sitting in the the second best position. One guy was really starting to get a lead. But Peter went all in and won. So Peter’s stack was starting to compare to mine. <\/p>\n
I got a King and Jack of Diamonds. It was a time when I had to think long and hard about playing that hand, knowing with the other have played and knowing my chip stack. I saw in one of the blinds. Peter ended up going all-in. The other guy called Peter’s all-in. <\/p>\n
So I had an all-in and a call. How good could my hand be. But I looked at the stack, which was more than twenty four buck. I could call it and not be all-in. But it would cripple me if I lose. If Peter won he would be in the chip lead. If the other guy won, Peter would be out, and the other guy would dominate me.<\/p>\n
I realized I was pretty much putting my tournament life in that hand. I was already in the money at five bucks. But the buy-in was ten bucks. So I would end up losing. I could just wait it out and get to second place and I would end up winning fifteen for a net of five bucks.<\/p>\n
I thought about it some more. I thought that if I don’t get in on it and Peter wins he will be solid back into this. Finally I made the call. Then on the flop there was a KxXxXx. I now had a pair of kings, but the diamond flush was not going to hit because none of the cards on the table were diamonds. The other guy pushes all-in and I call.<\/p>\n
We all show our hands. Peter had bullets. The other guy had pocket Jacks. I had a KJ. So the pocket Jacks had one out. I needed to have a King hit. I had a pair of kings to the bullets. <\/p>\n
Just as I said that the turn was a King. Now I had trips knocking Peter nearly out. He had two outs and the guy with Jacks was done. The river was nothing and I won that hand. It put me in first place for chip count and sent Peter packing.<\/p>\n
The other guy and I went back and forth with blinds for a while. Finally I got him all-in. I had a decent hand and the cards hit just right giving me a straight on the river.<\/p>\n
I left with sixty bucks, up fifty bucks for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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