"I want you to mention me in your blog," a man to our right said tonight at Lil Kim's Cove. "I want you to mention my name."
OK, fair enough. On this Veterans Day, we were joined at the table by E.J. -- who has served his country in Iraq and Japan. But we don't think he wanted to be mentioned for this....
BLINDS: 25/50
IN THE POCKET: J-10 offsuit
We're at a table of six. No one's raising, so we decide to lay low and limp in.
ON THE FLOP: J-5-9
We have top pair, but other players are ahead of us. The table checks to E.J., who bets 300. We call, while everyone else folds.
ON THE TURN: J
E.J. checks. But now we have three of a kind, so we're marching instead of limping. We bet 600, leading at least one man at the table to guess we have a Jack. E.J. probably hears that, but he calls anyway. (Of course, he might also have a Jack.)
ON THE RIVER: 10
....but we really doubt he has a full house now, as we do. E.J. checks, and we bet 1,500.
"That tells me you have the Jack," E.J. says. We say nothing, while he thinks it over for several seconds. Finally he folds -- and while neither of us show what we had, we're guessing he made the right decision.
That hand gave us a nice gain after early losses -- but nothing came our way beyond that. A last-ditch push with K-Q lost to a player with A-10, who took three players out at once with two pair. Final score: a tie for 19th place -- and a final table slump that's climbed to 11 tournaments in a row.
MINISTRY MOMENT: Earlier in the day, we were joined at an online tournament by a player with an unusual Biblical name....
Dealer: Ararat wins Main Pot ($820) with Flush, queen high
THE_GLASSMAN: nh
Me: Chips mount for Ararat.
Ararat: tx
Dealer: flopblogger wins Main Pot ($570)
Me: With a name like Ararat, are you a Bible reader?
Ararat: oops no
Me: That's where Noah's Ark landed in Genesis....
Ararat: yes sure thats right
Me: (Double-checked it just now. :-) )
You can see that mention of Mount Ararat in Genesis 8:4. Now let's encourage you to be a Bible reader: can you find another place in Scripture where Ararat is mentioned? We'll have the answer in a future post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 83 final tables in 206 nights (40.3%) - 15 cashes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POKER TOTAL: Full tournaments - 88 point wins in 478 games (18.4%), 37 final tables, 2 cashes. We had a sixth-place finish in an 84-player game Sunday afternoon.
POKER STARS.NET TOTAL: Full tournaments - Two "top ten percent" finishes in 12 games (16.7%), no cashes. Pretend cash games - $22,204, down $220.
We never mentioned how we did in the "Million Dollar Challenge Freeroll" last Sunday night. It was our best showing in that massive game yet -- lasting until the one-hour break, finishing at #7,996 out of almost 37,000 players.
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