Still hoping to make the money at the most prestigious poker room in our area, we went to Kansas Star Casino today for its "Sunday Deep Stack" tournament. An $85 buy-in gets you 10,000 chips with slowly rising blinds. Turning that into big gains would be the challenge....
BLINDS: 50/100
IN THE POCKET: A-Q offsuit
We've won some hands and lost some hands - and the wins haven't been big enough to secure us a high chip stack. Our high for the day was about 12,400. We receive these cards about midway around, in a ten-player game. We choose to limp, and about four players are in.
ON THE FLOP: Q-6-3 (as best we recall)
Top pair and top kicker seem nice. Other players betting ahead of us seem nicer. One man offers 250; we're happy to call, as does a young man between us.
ON THE TURN: 10
We don't see much to fear with this - only now the play checks to us. It's our turn to bet 250, which chases one man away. But the young man calls; leaving us guessing about what he has. Does he have a Queen as well?
ON THE RIVER: 10
That complicates things a bit. What if he has a 10? We dare to bet 600 to find out, and he calls again. Thankfully, he turns over Q-8. Our kicker takes a nice pot.
"They're similar," one person at the table points out. Well, yes - but Ace and 8 only go together if you're rhyming in a poker song.
We lasted more than two hours, but saw our stack slowly erode. Pocket 8's gave us a nice comeback to more than 7,000 chips. But when we had K-K and a man raised to 3,300, we dared to go all-in - only to see him turn over pocket Aces! One of every poker player's worst nightmares came true for us. And while the flop was Q-10-9, we missed the Jack to escape with a straight. We left the room in 44th place out of 64 players, with our goal still not met.
MINISTRY MOMENT: We went to the casino intentionally not to have one. But when someone came to the table with heart-shaped boxes of Valentine candy, we didn't take one, either.
What's that all about? Long-time blog readers should know the answer. For everyone else.... well, take a guess.. We'll explain in an upcoming post.
UPDATED POKER SCOREBOARD: 175 final tables in 464 games (37.7%) - 33 cashes. We're now two-for-four in making money from tournaments in 2016.
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