"Should we make it a bounty night?" the tournament director asked at the start of tonight's game at Soho Bar & Grill. Moments later, he decided the answer was yes -- and it had nothing to do with paper towels.
The bounty rules awarded a gold bonus chip worth 5,000 to anyone who eliminated another player. But why settle for one, when you can have a double play?
BLINDS: 200/400
IN THE POCKET: 6-4 of spades
We're in the big blind -- and with several players calling, we can check our way into the hand.
ON THE FLOP: 7s-8s-Jh (not exactly sure about the third card)
There's straight and flush potential for us -- not to mention a combination of the two. The small-blind woman in front of us bets 500. We call, as do one or two others.
ON THE TURN: 5d.
The least of the three options, but we'll take it. The woman playing first now merely checks. Sorry, that won't do -- we bet 500. Another woman across the table then goes all-in, adding about 1,350 more. The woman playing first only has about 550 left, but she goes all-in as well. Our call is obvious.
"Straight, 4 to 8," we say as we turn up our cards. The first woman in line only has a King high, and she's sunk. The other woman appears to have a pair of 8's.
ON THE RIVER: 2c.
The straight works up -- and it's a double takeout, earning us 10,000 bonus chips!
At one point our stack reached 25,000. But with the blinds rising into the thousands, another player with even more made two big all-in pushes against us after the flop. We made a smart laydown with A-K which didn't pair. But the second time, we smelled a bully bluff and called with A-J. We were wrong, as the opponent had 9's and 7's while we never made a pair. Final position: 19th place -- ending our long run of final tables.
MINISTRY MOMENT: A big bet that we called early prompted a man to our left to say, "Jesus."
"He's my hope of salvation," we respond. (Check I Thessalonians 5:9, if you're not sure about that.) The man says nothing more.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 32 final tables in 75 nights (42.7%) - 8 cashes.
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