Wednesday, May 13, 2009

After the Big Bucks

The NBC Sports poker room has a weekly tournament, with an $800 top prize. But you have to rank among the top 1,000 in "leaderboard points" to qualify.

We climbed into the top 1,000 Tuesday night, by trying the biggest daily cash game on the site. The 10:30 p.m. ET tournament offers a $35 first prize. We didn't quite get there, but we finished 23rd out of 263 players. Finishing in the "top 10 percent" earned us about 1,400 points.

There was drama right off the bat, when we had Q-J -- and A-K-10 came on the flop. Yes, we flopped a straight in our first online hand for money!

Three other players eventually went all-in, with hands such as K-K and A-Q. We dared to join them, even though three clubs were on the board for a possible flush. The result: a starting stack of 1,000 chips jumped to a dominant 4,000 justthatquick.

"Whew" was all we could write on the chat line about that.

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