Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NLOP Senior Championship 1: Winning the 400

The trouble with that headline is that 812 players competed for the National League of Poker November Senior Championship tonight. We did well to finish #400, apparently thanks to dozens of players being disqualified for not showing up.

Things looked so promising. In the first ten minutes of play, we were dealt:

* K-K -- which prompted us to double up the pre-flop bet. But with three hearts on the board on the turn, a player went all in. "Too early," we wrote (holding no heart) and folded. (The pusher won the pot, and never showed.)

* A-K -- which came to nothing.

* 9-9 -- which we had to fold, when cards came to give someone an A-10 straight.

We finally won a pot at the 30-minute mark, when we pushed all-in with only 100 chips left. Our A-10 led to a pair of tens, giving us 250.

But we pushed again three minutes later with Q-J and building blinds. A player called with K-J, and a lower pair on the board gave him the pot. Oh well, December's coming.

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