One thing we still need to learn when it comes to live poker is how to "read" opponents. Read them correctly, and you'll have success in hands. Read them incorrectly, and you'll pay for it. The latter happened for us tonight, and we wound up tied for last place at our Lil Kim's Cove table.
We never won a pot all night. And we admittedly were weakened on chips due to bad chases, when a big loss came....
BLINDS: 100/200
IN THE POCKET: Kh-Jd
A promising start. We call, as do several others.
ON THE FLOP: Js-10d-4c
Top pair for us, and nearly top kicker. We're second in line to bet, and throw in 200. A few players join us.
ON THE TURN: 9c
The woman in lead position (to our immediate right) bets 400. We're not sure why -- two pair, maybe? But now we have a straight draw, so we call. So does someone behind us.
ON THE RIVER: Jc
Now we have three Jacks. Yet the woman playing first pushes in 2,000.
We entered this hand with about 4,000 -- and our gut instinct says this is a big bluff to push us off the pot, perhaps pretending to have a pocket pair for a full house.
"I may regret this, but I'll call," we say. Sure enough:
"I hit a straight, that turned into a flush," the woman declares. She shows Qc-8c -- and admittedly we never saw either one coming. Our "read" might as well have been in French.
A few minutes later, we were in the big blind with K-J of spades. When someone raised 500, we went all-in with 1,175 more. An A-Q came on the flop (no spades, though) -- but with no 10 on the river, our evening was over. The woman who topped us before took a second player out as well, with two pair.
MINISTRY MOMENT: The man to our left admitted he was distracted by our "big card" tonight. For the first time in months, we took the "Get Out of Church Free" card we picked up last year for a card protector. So we explained the story behind it, and why you should leave a church service free of your sins.
"Disguise your sins," the man joked.
"No, I don't think that's quite the answer," we answered with a laugh. Later we put it another way: "It's a bit like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
The man seemed to understand what we were saying. Do you? Here's an article which might help it make sense.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 25 final tables in 63 nights (39.7%) - 7 cashes.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $11,882 - up $59. (We haven't had time to play much.)
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