{"id":641,"date":"2006-07-11T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2008-09-17T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T02:39:01","slug":"poker-passion-and-final-table-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Poker Passion and Final Table Fantasies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my wife put a cheesy pic of me at the final table of the APL’s 7:00pm session, I feel the need to write about it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>I was happy that I was at the final table. I realized early on that this was going to be a different night. I was getting cards right and left. I had a great streak at my first table where I got quad 7’s followed by trip 7’s followed by trip Ace’s then we left for a 15 min break. When I returned I got another set of Ace’s and took out 2 players of which one was the chip leader at the table for a while till she decided that she had to be in my last 4 pots. On her last hand she had Ace Queen and I had pocket Ace’s, the flop was Queen, Ace, 7. The guy next to me had 10\/7 off suit and\u00c2\u00a0went all in with his last 1000; I knew I had him beat. The other person that had been in all my other pots and lost decided to raise it to 3000, I looked at her and without blinking said I was all in with almost 20k in chips. She looked and me and said “I have to call you” she only had about 1200 in chips left. I figured if she made a miracle out of this hand then she deserved it if not then I win big time. Everyone flipped over their cards and the truth was revealed and we saw her 2 pair, the guy next to me was dead in the water and I revealed my set. Their was another guy that was to the right of me that knew what we had before we ever rolled over our cards and as we turned the cards he points to the guy to my left and says “desperate move” points to the woman and says “2 pair” and points to me and say “the set” and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly how it plaid out. The last 2 cards didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <\/span>help<\/span> anyone and I won the biggest pot of the night (to my knowledge) after that I just sat back and rode the ride for a while, then I realized that as the blinds get higher you cant ride for long cause the blinds will eat you up. So I started to make some moves but nothing too risky so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t loose the chips that I had and risk missing my chance to get to the final table. After a few table bounces as we consolidated and moved closer and closer to that final table I became more and more aware of who I was going to be up against and watched their style of play. I got down to about 15k in chips at the last table before they moved us to the final table and got lucky by getting pocket aces followed by ace queen suited. It seemed that those cards were following me everywhere. I finally got my chip stack up to 45k and we got moved to the final table. I thought I was going to get lucky and grab a few hands to stay alive for a bit but I was not so lucky. The cards that fell were junk and the blinds hit 40k real quick, soon I was in the blind and I had to put all my chips in to play regardless. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look at my cards until it was all over just because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m superstitious. The run was over and I turned my cards to see that I had actually hit nothing and was knocked out. I went out 7th and tied with another guy that was put in the same position. All in all I was lucky rather than skilled that time, but it was a good ride and it made me feel good to just make it that far. I had never really been that far in the game and now I can say with pride that I beat out 200+ other people to sit at the final table.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0On a side note the person that won the game for the evening was a pregnant lady that had never played poker before tonight and was using a card to tell her what hands she had. Beginners always win on their first time, next week she will be like everyone else. Hopefully I will be sitting at the final table again. My ultimate goal is to be in the first place club with my wife and friends. Currently I’m the only one that has not made it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my wife put a cheesy pic of me at the final table of the APL’s 7:00pm session, I feel the need to write about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I was happy that I was at the final table. I realized early on that this was going to be a different night. I was getting cards right and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}