The Red Barn club in Phenix City has a separate room from the main bar. We suppose it's for private parties -- but tonight it became an exclusive poker room for us. Six players had a secluded table to themselves, while two others were in action elsewhere. It made for a more friendly atmosphere -- perhaps a bit too friendly?!
BLINDS: 50/100
IN THE POCKET: A-5 offsuit
The play is leisurely, with no one raising. An Ace invites us to call.
ON THE FLOP: A-5-7
Two pair invite us to stick around awhile. A player ahead of us bets 200. We raise to 600. Hardly anyone is scared away, as most of the table calls.
ON THE TURN: 4
The player who bet first previously checks now. We keep pressing the issue by betting 600 more. Now players bail out, except for the Tournament Director sitting across from us. We're heads-up.
ON THE RIVER: 8
Uh-oh -- that's a card potentially loaded with trouble. We check, but our opponent bets 3,000.
"Were you waiting with a 6?" we ask aloud.
"I'll show you one of my cards!" the Director offers. He turns over an Ace, to match ours. How generous of him. Not.
"Yeah.... but that's not the card I want to see. I'm going to fold."
"Oh, did you want to see THIS card?" Sure enough -- that other card is a 6. He hit a straight on the river, so our fold was wise. But we clearly didn't bet enough during the hand to run him off -- and we're not sure how much would have been enough to accomplish that.
We made an even worse blunder on the next hand with A-8 -- betting an A-8 which we saw on the board, but never noticing three diamonds at the turn which turned into a flush for an opponent.
Our chip stack fell to 600, and we couldn't fully recover from there. A couple of all-in bets paid off, but a push with A-Q at the semifinal table failed to bring a pair. We were one of three players eliminated in a tie for 15th place.
MINISTRY MOMENT: We used a small packet of salt for our card protector tonight, and took advantage of the secluded room for a "heads-up" discussion at the one-hour break. When we mentioned Jesus wants us to be "the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13), a player agreed and said Jesus is his Savior.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 76 final tables in 183 nights (41.5%) - 15 cashes.
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