Either things were going to be really good at Lil Kim's Cove Thursday night -- or really bad. That's because in only two Yahoo online hands earlier in the day, we made QUAD 10's (on the turn!) and three J's to win a $200-plus pot. (Then we folded a poor hand before the flop, and went back to work.)
The answer: we did well, all in all. We gained several pots, and held on to tie for sixth. In one hand, our high hopes became reality....
BLINDS: 200/400
IN THE POCKET: Q-J offsuit
We're early in line to bet, and the cards seem high enough to call. Several players join in.
ON THE FLOP: 10-9-3 (rainbow; our memory admittedly is fuzzy about the 3)
It's an open-ended straight draw. A man ahead of us bets 600, which seems reasonable. A third player who's the runaway chip leader calls as well.
ON THE TURN: 4 (fuzzy again)
"Six," the man ahead of us says again. We decide to show some courage after a miss, so we call another 600. So does the third man.
ON THE RIVER: K
The straight is made! The first man bets 600 again -- and from where we're sitting, he appears to be all-in. So we turn to the big stack, and raise 2,000 directly toward him. He folds. But the first man actually is NOT all-in. He thinks it over, calls -- and his two pair get burned.
A player sitting between the two of us sees a teachable moment here. "That's why you bet big early," he tells the loser. "You don't let him hang around to have a chance at the pot."
As we so often seem to do, we walked a tightrope at the final table. We doubled up twice in a row, once when K-K held up against other short-stack players. But our escape routes ran out when a player made three 10's to top our J-9.
MINISTRY MOMENT: It didn't happen until the final table, when we were almost eliminated. We went to poker night directly from work, and didn't take a "prop" with us. But then a woman to our left rallied from one gold 5,000 chip to about ten.
"Amen," she said. "Thank you, God. I know you don't like this, but thank you, anyway."
"I don't think God doesn't like it," we answer. "There are some Christian poker players, you know." We bring up Daniel Negranu, and repeat our note atop this blog that playing free games isn't gambling.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 27 final tables in 67 nights (40.3%) -- 7 cashes.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $12,279 -- up $199, only $13 below our record high.
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