Chip and a Chair

I went to the Fitz 100+10 game last night and there was as big a crowd at this as I can remember. 8 full tables, due in part to the fact that the PokerEvents thing in the Red Cow was not on last night for some reason.

Before the break I didn't see a single pair, and no A better than ATo. It was hard to pick up any chips with those but the few pots I did play and bluffed at when it was checked around to me on the flop I won. The advantage of being a rock I guess. At the break not much had happened and I had 5100 from a starting stack of 4k, not great, but just about playable.

After the break things improved a bit, I won a couple of pots preflop, took out a very shortstacked player from my BB and then this happened.

Dealt TT in the SB. Folded around to the cutoff who called (BB 600). Button, very LAG made it 2200. I pushed instantly from the SB (6800 total) as I knew I was ahead of a large percentage of his range. I would have been happy to pick up the pot there but was also happy to take my chances with TT against most of his likely holdings which I figured as any pair, any suited A, any 2 face broadways.

BB folds and cutoff thinks for a while. At this point the button says to the cutoff 'It'd be great if you called cause then I wouldn't have to'. Whether he viewed this as an enticement to call or whatever, the cutoff folded. Button then moans, groans, says he wished he didn't raise so much, and then calls under apparant discomfort (he had 100 less than me so I have change). He flips over 33 and happy days I am 80-20 to more than double up to 14700. Flop comes A high, no danger to me. Turn is the dreaded 3 and river no help to me. Chip and a chair time.

I go all in next hand on the blind from the button for my last 100 and triple up to 300 when my blind TT (ironically) wins the centre pot. I was a couple of hands before throwing in my 300 with A8s which wins vs QQ when A comes on the flop to quadruple me up to 1200. A couple of hands later I throw my money (2 BB's now!!!) with Q9o and against the 2 blinds the flop reads QTJ (2 spades). SB goes all in and BB calls. SB shows A7o and BB shows 93o ?????? Mad. Turn is J, river 9, I triple up to 3600 and SB knocked out on the river by BB. Game on. Or not. Cards turn to jelly then, blinds go up, I eventually went all in blind from BB with 800 of my 2400 in the pot and lost with 52s vs TT. They joined to the last 2 tables when I left.

Perhaps I should have been more aggressive when I had tripled up to 3600 and tried to pick up a couple more blinds on the steal. If I had been called though I would have been big underdog, and there were raises most hands into me so unopened pots were rare. Ah well. If, but, maybe. None of them any good to me. I was reasonably happy with the way I played but hopefully my luck and the cards are waiting for the end of month game on Thursday to come good.

I Michael McDowell follows through and is successful in his threats to get all casino type establishments closed down I will not be a happy bunny. To me it will be like getting sacked from my job with no hope of finding another one in this country. It will be like the dark days of emigration when people were forced to look overseas for a job. Except I wouldn't emigrate. i'd just complain, work my 'day job' and play more online.