Favorite Poker Video
Posted on September 10, 2006 by Ching under Poker, Web.
I found this video on Daniel Negreanu’s personal assistant Patty’s MySpace and I have to say it is now one of my favorite video clips. I’m not a big Phil fan so I totally enjoyed watching him implode. LOL.
Speaking of poker, I played in APL’s $1000 tourney yesterday afternoon at Doyles Room. You had to have so much APL points in order to qualify. You earn the points by placing in local APL tourneys. Anyway, Brian and I both played in it. There were only 102 players so the odds were pretty good.
Brian got knocked out in 24th place, out of the money. He had queen-jack, off suit. The flop came queen-seven-seven, rainbow. Brian is first to act. Personally, I think he should have checked but he chose this opportunity to make a move. He went all-in. The other player who just happens to have Brian covered calls quickly. He turns out pocket kings. Needless to say, that was the end of the line for Brian.
Brian’s defense was that he thought the guy was bluffing again. Apparently, Brian was tired of him bluffing and buying pots so that factored into his decision making process.
As for me, I made it to the final table. I got knocked out in 5th because of pretty much the same thing. I got impatient and wanted to make a move. I made a move at the wrong time.
I had two choices: fold my ace-ten or go all in. I should have thought about it more because the right move was to fold. I went all in failing to take into account that there is a player to act after me with eight times my chip stack. He called, naturally. Then small blind goes all-in also. Another bad sign. I had him outchipped, though.
When we turned our cards over, I knew I was way behind. Small blind had pocket aces. Stacks had ace-three, clubs. I was ahead of stacks but there was no way I could win against the small blind. Hitting a ten wouldn’t be enough. I needed two tens to win. What are the odds of that happening?
I would have taken the side pot becuase I had stacks out-kicked but the river was a three. So it was the end of the line for me. I won $50 for taking 5th, though. Not too bad consindering I didn’t have to pay anything to play in the tourney.
Of course, I kind of wish I would’ve been patient and just waited it out. Surely someone else would’ve gotten knocked out and I would’ve gotten pushed up in the money. The next place up paid $80 and the prizes continued to increase until $300 for 1st place. Stacks had a lock on 1st, though. Even if you added all the chips of the other three players left it would only amount to little more than 50% of his chip stack.
I don’t know how it ended but I didn’t really care. Brian and I wanted to take a short nap before dinner at Granite City with his friends and coworkers. Dinner was in honor of Jeremy’s departure. He is moving to Maryland to be a horse trainer.
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