I finally cashed in on a MTT. First one ever. It was a $5 R + A NL Hold em tournament. There were about 750 entrants and I finished 60th. The payout? $29. You may say, that's nothing and if you know rebuy and add on tournaments, you are probably thinking I didn't make any money. However, I didn't have to make any rebuys and I did the add on just because. So $10 was my total buy in. I saw one guy make 9 rebuys while I was at his table. So I did pretty damn good. I played a bit conservative once we got to the 10th level and higher. I had to, I was always around 10 BB's. No matter what, I'm happy to finally cash in a MTT (multi table tournament). This was probably my 15th MTT. Very stressful.
While I was waiting for the MTT to start, I played some cash game and doubled my buy in. Always nice. I don't remember the big hand where I doubled up, but I remember one hand where the player that lost went crazy on me.
First of all, I hate it when people take it out on me because they played a hand bad. But maybe you'll agree with him. Here's the hand:
I'm in BB with KJo. He is in the cutoff and raises to $0.75. A raise to $0.75 in a $0.10/$0.25 game is pretty standard these days. This guy had been doing this a lot and I wanted to catch him. So I called.
Flop comes down 4c Js Qc. I have middle pair but do fear the Q. I check and he bets $1 into a $1.55 pot. I look at this as a scared bet. I take this bet as a "I think you might have a flush draw but I have top pair and don't want to lose a lot of money if you hit it". I also take this as "I have a draw and might not hit it". So I call.
Turn is a blank. I act first and bet $2, which is about half the pot. He calls me. River is a Jc. So there are 3 cards to a flush on the board now and I have a set. I check thinking he hit his flush. He checks. He turns up Qs10s and proceeds to tell me how horrible of a call it was I made with middle pair on the flop. Then tells me I'm lucky and blah blah. I fight back. I hate it when this crap goes on. I usually keep my mouth shut so I don't give away information about the way the player plays or how I'm playing, but this guy wouldn't stop.
So we went back and forth for awhile. Then a few hands later, I have A6o in the BB and it comes around to me with 4 limpers, he is one of them. Flop comes down 6 J 6. I flop the set. I check, being I'm first to act. Everyone else checks and he bets. I raise. He calls. I put him on a jack. Turn is a blank. I bet the pot and he just calls. I know he has a 6 now, but my ace will help me win the pot. On the river, the board pairs, full house. I check, he checks and turns up 6c2c. I remind him about his "lucky" comment and he says "Agreed. Let's drop it". And that was it.
In poker, remember you will sometimes be on the end of bad luck and sometimes be on the end of good luck. It depends on what you do with it.
On a even better note, I hit quad 2's, quad 10's twice, and quad Q's at the casino on video poker last week. Then I hit a royal flush. Walked away $1200 up. Here's proof:
