We didn't play any poker during vacation -- not even online. In fact, the deck of cards we took never even left the motel room drawer. We were at a religious convention, after all.
So we might have been a bit rusty on our return to Lil Kim's Cove tonight. But the better explanation for our performance was probably bad timing and instinct. We lasted more than an hour, but wound up in about 20th place among four crowded tables.
We won the first hand of the night, with modest "warm-up" or "feel things out" betting which left a couple of people at our table puzzled.
BLINDS: 25/50.
IN THE POCKET: 9-6 of hearts.
Several players toss the minimum in the pot, to start the party. We're in early position, which works to our favor.
ON THE FLOP: Kc, another club and a 6 (spade, I think).
Checks abound.
ON THE TURN: 6 of clubs.
"Somebody hit a flush," one player boastfully speculates. Thanks for the reminder.
"350," I bet. I have three of something, all right -- but not clubs.
Several players fold. "Why would he bet THAT if he had a flush?" one wonders. But one man stays in.
ON THE RIVER: A red 9.
OK, I'm listening to you skeptics -- "1,500." The other player quickly folds, so he's left to guess about whether I might have hit a full house.
But a couple of fairly big tries for pots after that fell short. As the blinds went up and my stack went down, I mucked back-to-back hands with two diamonds -- only to see enough diamonds turn up on the board to cost me consecutive flushes.
I won an all-in bet late in the evening with Kc-Jc, as a pair of Kings topped an opponent's Jack high. But when I went all in again with pocket 6's, aces and a King turned up -- and a man to my left had a King to top me.
MINISTRY MOMENT: "Is that for good luck?" a first-time poker player to my left asked after a couple of hands about my silver coin [Oct 1].
"No, it's not for that" -- and he read the message about Jesus it contains. "What do you think of that?"
"I don't expect to see that when playing poker," the man admitted.
I told him how I acquired the coin. The flip side of it has the logo for a Christian Motorcycle Association; a member gave it to me at a Bible study a few months ago. The other man told me he saw that group's booth at a Labor Day weekend drag racing competition in Reynolds, GA. "They were way up on a hill!" Above it all, perhaps?
The discussion about godly things ended with a quote of our unofficial motto: Our "King of Kings" can beat any Ace.
UPDATED SCOREBOARD: 21 final tables in 47 nights (44.7%) -- 6 cashes. For us, this is turning into a slump: only one final table in the last six sessions.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $8201 (Down $221; - 130 from poker).
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