Sometimes at the poker table, an opponent will make a bet that's awfully hard to turn down. Reject it, and you could miss out on a big pot. Take it.... well, and the same thing could happen. It did tonight at Lil Kim's Cove:
BLINDS: 500/1,000
IN THE POCKET: K-Q offsuit
Blinds are high, so not many people are calling before the flop. Yet a man to our immediate right goes all-in, with 9,000 chips. What would you guess he has?
"This is very hard to throw away." We show our cards to a man at our left who folded. (This is free informal poker, where you can do that.)
"I agree," that man says. Yet if the opponent bet big with pocket Aces, we'd be in big trouble -- and we've been burned that way before.
"I have to play this," we finally decide -- and call the all-in bet. We have only 8,500 left.
"Good call," we hear our opponent say. Well, maybe not. We show our K-Q. Our opponent has A-6. It's an old-fashioned race, and he leads.
ON THE FLOP: A-9-3 (don't recall the third card exactly).
Our opponent hit it big. We're in that big trouble.
ON THE TURN: 5.
With no way of making a straight or even two pair, the river card (8) doesn't matter. We're out in about 21st place.
MINISTRY MOMENT: The man who sat to our left tonight is built big, and likes to talk big. Yet he provided our best Christian discussion on a poker night in some time. The man joked (we think) about being all for himself in a tournament.
"Esteem one another better than yourself," we said. "I read that in a book once."
"That sounds real pretty," the other man said somewhat dismissively.
Several minutes later, we returned to that quote between hands. "Do you know what book I read that in?" The other man didn't know. "In the Bible." It's from Philippians 2:3, in fact (slightly adjusting the King James Version).
"Do you read the Bible?" we asked the man.
"Every now and then."
"The more you read it, the better it will become," we said to encourage him.
"But I've got a problem with one word," he answered. "Better than. I say we're all equal." Hmmmm -- how would you respond to that? We'll share our thoughts in a later post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 37 final tables in 90 nights (41.1%) - 8 cashes. After a good run for a few weeks, we've suddenly blanked in our last five.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $13,295 - unchanged (didn't play).
NBC SPORTS POKER TOTAL: Five-player sit-n-goes - 26-31-5-4-8. Full tournaments - 14 final tables in 105 games (3.5%), 2 cashes. We're earning points (equivalent to finishing "in the money" at a casino) almost 23 percent of the time.
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