| There aren`t too many games in my home town but
some crowd have started a local league. You earn point every time you play.
At the end of a ten week season, there will be a grand final event and the
winner will get a WPT seat. I arrived early for registration at the venue,
a club about 30 minutes from where I live. I had to fight my way through a
couple of hundred old ladies who had just finished a bingo tournament to get
to the registration desk. Enough to put me in a bad mood. There was a queue
of about 50 people waiting to register for the NL Hold`em tournament so I
decided to grab a beer to accompany me to the front of the queue (decided to
drink something different - bad idea, the stuff was bitter as hell). Once
registered there was about a 30 minute wait and I reverted back to my normal
brew which made me feel much better already.
Once seated, I sized up the competition and felt quite good. However, a
young man arrived late at the table and I immediately felt that this guy was
to be watched carefully when he took a seat to my right. The starting stack
was only $550 in chips so I figured you have to build your stack up by being
aggressive early on. Anyway, that was my strategy.
First hand, laid down. Second hand, under the gun, I raise with KQ off
suit (about 3 times the big blind). The table folds and my friend to the
right calls from the big blind. The flop comes, hello, KQQ. Hello baby. He
checks. I bet $200. He calls. Turn comes 3d. He checks again. I bet all in.
He calls immediately and turns over AQ! Shit. No ace, no ace! And the river
ladies and gentlemen! An A!
So a long trip, a long wait and all for that. Anyway I`ll head back next
week and try again! Definitely my worst bad beat to date in my short poker
career. |
