I'd played a couple of these sometime ago and both times did something stupid about 2 hours in... decided I didn't have the patience for it and gave them up.
Well, I've recently returned to playing at PokerStars, I had just read of RED-DOG's 2nd place yesterday when I noticed a $10 deepstacks tournament starting in a couple of minutes, at 7.00 pm... so I decide to give it a go.
Almost
9 hours later there are 12 of the 903 starters left and I have just taken the chip lead.
A couple of hands later, I find
in the 'cut off', 700k in chips... two fold to me, I raise to 3 x BB (36000)... button folds... SB goes all-in with 175k... BB folds... I call.
SB has
... making me appx 3/1 fav (I think).
Flop
... no help to me on turn or river... my riegn as chip leader didn't last long, back down to 3rd place with appx 560k.
3 hands later and still sulking over my 'bad beat'... I have
in the BB.
They fold to the cut off (appx 650k chips), who raises to 3 x BB (still 36000)... and why not, he had done this every time in this situation since he came to the table... button and SB fold... Red Mist is begining to form... I call.
Flop is
... I bet 60k into an 81k pot... matey raises to 144k... I don't believe him and totally oblivious to the fact that he is the only person on the table who can knock me out - I re-raise all-in... he thinks for a moment or two and calls.
He has
!!! Again appx 3/1 fav... and I thought I was on 'tilt'!!
However, turn is
... and then that damn river card...
Out in 12th place for the princely sum of $90.31... that's a whole $10 / hr!
9 hours of good play and then 'hero to zero' in two hands!!!!
The question is -
Why didn't I just fold and give up my BB? After all, this time he actually had a legitimate hand to raise with pre-flop.
Cheers,
RR
PS: I know this is a thinly disguised bad beat story (well two actually and not very well disguised), but I had to get this off my chest... where do I send the £1 to?
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