It was a seemingly typical night for us at Lil Kim's Cove tonight. We won a couple of pots and gained ground. Then we lost a couple of chases and lost ground. Then we held on through an all-in moment -- and we wound up barely missing the final table, tying for ninth place when our all-in push with J-10 found an A-K on the flop, but no Queen for a straight from there.
Yet the memorable hand of the night came much earlier, and reminded us of why casino poker games have professional dealers:
BLINDS: 50/100
IN THE POCKET: 4-6 (we think; don't remember completely)
We're not in the blinds, so we're not interested in this hand. We fold, while most of the full table calls.
ON THE FLOP: 9h-9s-3c
Someone raises to about 300. Three players stay in the hand, including the dealer.
ON THE TURN: Ah.
The first player checks. The second player bets around 800. The dealer calls, then....
ON THE RIVER: Kh.
"Hold it, hold it!" someone at the table says. What about Player 1? He still has a decision to make. The dealer tries to cover up his mistake with his hand, but it's too late.
The tournament director happened to see all this. "You have to re-shuffle," he says. The King of hearts is pulled back and shuffled with the remaining cards in the deck. After a moment, with the river card already burned....
ON THE RIVER II: Kh
The table is amazed, as the exact same card came up! If the dealer ever goes to Las Vegas, he could make money in a couple of ways -- playing poker, or doing card tricks.
MINISTRY MOMENT: The player sitting to our left brought a "lucky" coin to the table tonight -- a 1942 Liberty silver dollar, with a small hole in it.
We showed the man our "Jesus as your Savior" coin. "That's cool," he says. Asked if he agrees with the message, he says yes.
But sadly, the man seems to forget that Savior as he works toward the final table. One hand later in the evening leaves him saying, "Jesus f****** Christ!"
"Jesus did many things," we respond quietly, "but He didn't do that." We're not sure if the man heard that.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 37 final tables in 87 nights (42.5%) - 8 cashes. If we had resisted temptations through three recent semifinal table close calls (including tonight), our percentage would be around 46 percent.
NBC SPORTS POKER UPDATE: The poker day was not a complete loss, as we finished SECOND out of 152 players at an afternoon tournament! Second pays five dollars -- not much, but better than nothing.
It's our second paycheck in 11 days from NBC Sports -- and in the 2:30 p.m. ET tournament, we've made the final table FIVE times in the last ten tries! Maybe we're starting to figure this out....
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