"Wait, I say, wait on the Lord," sang a duet on Christian radio as we arrived home from tonight's poker tournament at Soho Bar & Grill. But sometimes, the rules of poker won't let you wait. Blinds go up. Blinds come 'round. And if your chip stack's really down....
BLINDS: 1,000/2,000
IN THE POCKET: A-10 of hearts
We won a pot early in the evening with two pair, but nothing after that. Our chip count dwindled to a measly 500 shortly before this hand -- but J-J allowed us to stay alive and triple up. Trouble is, our 1,500 still doesn't cover the blind now.
But playing second at a six-player table, we're not likely to see anything better than this. We go all in, as we think most poker players in our situation would. Three other people bet the 2,000 minimum.
ON THE FLOP: 2-4-7, one heart
The first man in line bets 5,000. (We're second and all-in.) The other players in the hand call.
ON THE TURN: 4
A flush is now out of the question for us. Player #1 bets 5,000 more. One player folds.
"All right, let's see it," declares the bettor -- so we flip over the cards and....
"Hang on a minute!" says a player across the table. We quickly flip the cards back. He's still deciding what to do, and apparently trying to provoke a tell.
"You ain't got s***," says the prosecutor.
"If you want to stay in the game, you'd better get out of my pot," says the bettor.
"You're right, because you'd put me all-in if I call." But after a little more questioning which would make Phil Hellmuth proud, he folds.
Now we can show our A-10. But as usual, the opponent doesn't show his cards until the river comes.
ON THE RIVER: 9
Ouch. We didn't make a pair, and he did. He has a 9, and we finish in around 19th place.
MINISTRY MOMENT: We showed a woman to our left the "Jesus as Your Savior" coin. "Amen," she said to it. "Better than silver and gold."
She quoted the first line of another Christian song: "I'd rather have Jesus than silver and gold." Do you know which book of the Bible presents that idea? The answer's coming in a later post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 47 final tables in 113 nights (41.6%) - 10 cashes. A Thursday road trip probably will rule out our usual trip to Lil Kim's Cove.
YAHOO POKER TOTAL: $13,816 - unchanged. (No games played)
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POKER TOTAL: Five-player sit-n-goes - 2-2-0-0-0. Full tournaments - 3 final tables in 18 games (16.7%), no cashes.
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