BLINDS: 1,000/2,000
IN THE POCKET: Ace of spades - 4 of clubs
We won a hand in the first hour, when we had an Ace which paired on the flop. But that's all we've won, as small pocket pairs were overwhelmed by big bets by opponents and missed flops. Now we're in the small blind, starting the hand with 2,500 left. Our blind is 1,000, and no one at the table of five raises ahead of us.
"I'm all-in," we decide after checking our cards; "500 more." (Over the blind, that is.)
The big blind throws in 500 to call. But the dealer to our right decides that's not enough. "I'll go 4,000 more." Those are chips we can't win, but they put the big blind all-in with us. That man calls, and a dealer who took two players out in the first hour by turning K-10 into a straight could take out two more. He shows 9-9.
"An old-fashioned race here," the big blind notes. And the cards are dealt quickly to match....
ON THE FLOP: Jc-7c-4s
We make a pair, but not the one we wanted.
ON THE TURN: 3c
Still in trouble....
ON THE RIVER: 8c
"I've got a club!" we point out. The dealer's nines don't include one. The big blind shows K-8, with no club. So runner-runner keeps us alive with the main pot of 7,500, while the dealer takes a side pot and eliminates only one player.
"Good game," we try to say to the big blind -- but we gets up and leaves without acknowledging us. And he wore a big cross around his neck, too.
That advanced us to the semifinal table, but the cards weren't much better there. The next big blind there gave us 6-9, and we were forced to go all-in with our last 1,500 when 7-8 appeared at the turn. But the river was J, and we missed our straight draw while another man did not. We did shake his hand -- walking home in 12th place, and with our three-week final table streak snapped.
MINISTRY MOMENT: "What could be more wrong than cheating on another man's wife?" A player said that out of the blue during the one-hour break. We're not sure why, but it led to a little "guy talk" around the table about married women (primarily) increasingly engaging in infidelity.
"People aren't being faithful," we said. And that's sad -- for the sake of their families, and also because God takes a marriage covenant seriously.
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife -- with the wife of his neighbor -- both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. - Leviticus 20:10
That punishment may sound straight out of Saudi Arabia or the Taliban -- but it was part of the broad Old Testament law called the "Torah." Instead of loosening the rules, Jesus had this to say:
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. - Matthew 5:28
But wait, you may be saying -- didn't Jesus forgive a woman who was caught in adultery? Yes, He did. We'll consider that in an upcoming post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 105 final tables in 286 nights (36.7%) - 17 cashes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POKER TOTAL: Full tournaments - 184 point wins in 798 games (23.1%), 63 final tables, 7 cashes. One-table sit-n-goes: 8-13-9-3-3. We haven't played at NLOP much in recent days, due to a busy schedule and the site's transition to a new system.
POKER STARS,NET TOTAL: Pretend cash games - $65,624, up $2,980.
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