Perhaps it's more stereotype than truth, but some people say online poker players play more conservatively with age. At Tuesday night's monthly National League of Poker senior championship (age 50 and older), we saw evidence of it. Unlike some NLOP tournaments where pushing comes early and often, our table was tighter than an old winter sweater....
:01 IN: We have 9-9 in the Big Blind on the second hand of the night. But for the second hand in a row, the table folds. We get $15 in big blinds in a walk -- but we kinda wanted more.
:01 IN: "Hey, somebody called" we write as someone bets ahead of our J-Q in the small blind. We call, too. The flop is 5-J-Q. We lead out for 90, and the remaining two players fold. We gain 60. But awwwww....
:08 IN: We have 6-A of hearts. The flop is 2h-4d-Qh. With a flush draw, we bet the minimum 40 and chase a couple of players away. The turn is 7d, and someone bets 40 ahead of us. We call. The river is Js -- and we miss, losing to an opponent with a 7.
We only attempt to play two other hands in the first half-hour - folding in the big blind to a raise with 2-5 of hearts which would have brought us a straight. So our chip stack at the break is a modest 645. We're in 345th place, out of 398 still in the game.
:35 IN: We have 7-7. The flop is a gorgeous 7-Q-4, and we want action. We bet 300 of our remaining 545. And of course, no one bites. We win a $750 pot, and return almost to our starting stack at 995.
:40 IN: We have Jh-10x in the big blind, and call a doubling of the blind.
ON THE FLOP: 9h-Qh-3h.
A player ahead of us bets more than 2,000. With an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw, we decide to go for it -- calling with our remaining 545. Our opponent shows 9-9, so he has three of a kind.
ON THE TURN: Ks - giving us the straight! Yes!
ON THE RIVER: Q
Noooooo! The suit doesn't matter, because our opponent makes a winning full house. We wind up 322nd, out of 848 players - the victim of a seemingly-loose move, and one card too many.
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