We had a great afternoon playing online poker -- finishing 12th in a tournament with 568 players, barely missing the final table. So a three-table game at The Red Barn tonight should have been a breeze, right? Yeah, right....
BLINDS: 200/400
IN THE POCKET: J-Q offsuit
We're in the big blind, and enter this hand with 2,400 chips desperately needing a rally. We haven't won a pot all night. And we missed a golden opportunity in an earlier big blind holding 2-3; a 3 came on the flop, but we folded to a big bet and missed another 3 on the turn. No one raises around the six-player table now, and we check in hope.
ON THE FLOP: 6-8-J
Top pair for us says it's time to strike. The man to our right checks, and we push -- all-in for our last 2,000. A man to our left calls.
"I'll throw you a bone," the small blind man as he calls. Hmmmm -- maybe he has nothing.
ON THE TURN: 7
That feels good. The two remaining players agree to "check it down."
ON THE RIVER: K
Uh-oh -- not top pair anymore. And that's not good at all, as the bone-thrower makes two pair with that card. He has K-6, and the man to our left had two pair on the turn anyway with J-7. They pinch us to the rail -- fifth out of nine players at the table, out at the one-hour break.
MINISTRY MOMENT: Our new card protector depicting the Lord's Supper is drawing a lot of interest. We showed it to several people at our table tonight. One man to our right said he believed the event and Jesus were real.
But then he offered a joke about it, credited to D.L. Hughley. To summarize: Jesus asked Peter if he brought anything to the meal. Peter said no. Jesus asked John if he brought anything, and John said no. Then Jesus supposedly said: "G******it, this is the last supper."
How would you respond to something like that? We'll tell you our response in a future post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 88 final tables in 217 nights (40.6%) - 15 cashes.
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