Casino Tournament

Dave's Lake Miltona Pike

Still have been very busy with getting a new job, working old one and going to the lake. Fishing has been very good with my wife and I catching a lot of fish lately. I caught the biggest Northern that I ever have on Lake Miltona. It was between 8-10 Pd's. That's a big fish for that lake. Anyway on to casino trip. My wife and I decided to go to Hinkley last Wednesday. I have all ways liked their Wednesday tournament and they usually have a nice turnout. I have not been there for a while and surprised that they only had 6 tables and they seemed surprised at that many. One change that they have made is that you start with 5000 in chips but can add on an extra 2500 for $10. The problem is the $10 doesn't go into the prize fund it gets you 300 chips to a freeroll, so for every time you play you get 300 chips up to 5000. I don't go to Hinkley very often so it does me no good. But who wants to start 2500 behind the rest of the table so I paid the extra. I was on a table that was very aggressive right from the beginning. There was a Chris Ferguson wannabe. He had the whole look except for a white hat, but was the best look a like I have ever seen. He also thought that he was a great poker player and played a lot of hands and rasied and especially reraised a lot. I had a lot of good cards in the first hour and was able to increase my stack by double by break. I made a great call with second pair on the river to Chris look a like that tried to bluff me out. I could never put him on hand, because when he showed he never had anything. When this table broke up I was moved to table one. I was the chip leader on this table and play was very conservative. I was able to take down a lot of pots with little or nothing. I was feeling pretty confident. Then my downfall started. I raised preflop with K-Q of spades and was reluctantly called by big blind. Flop was K -10- 6 with two clubs. BB pushes all-in, I call. BB turns over J-7 clubs. Turn is a 9 river an 8 to give her thew straight and took about half my stack. It's ok at this point as I just need to tighten up a little as there are a lot of shorter stacks and blinds are getting higher. We are know down to two tables and I am middle stack on my table. I look down at KK. Yes! Short stack in front of me pushes all-in and then I push all-in. Everyone fold to BB. He has 4ooo in pot and 6000 left. He calls and turns over K-J. First all-in turns over JJ. I am in great position. Flop brings A-10 and the turn is a queen and I win a side pot for 2000 and am basically done. I did triple up once, but was soon out in 17th place a ways from the money. How do you make that call for all your chips with to strong all-ins in front of you. I some times wonder what people think. Oh well that how it goes in poker. I was very happy with my play at this tournament and feel that I didn't make any mistakes during play. That's all I can ask for. The WSOP is now down to the Nov. 9. I have been following it online. I have enjoyed their coverage. I still don't agree with the break between now and Nov. but they must have been happy because they are doing it again. It is nice to see a few name pros on the final table this year. I can hardly wait, it should be fun. I would have to put my money on Phil Ivey, but so will everyone else. And how about Dennis Phillips last years 3rd place making a deep run this year. Maybe it wasn't all just luck after all.