So I go to my Friday £60 at Asper’s game arriving at 7:12 p.m,. to find that there was a 888 £220 tournament already running from 6 p.m. I NEVER do well in a tournament if I am not seated at the table to see the first card off the deck at the first level.
I’ve never bought in with cash to a tournament over £100 except in Las Vegas, I’ve always qualified. I find a cash point pay the £1.50 cash point fee and buy in for £220 and we start a new table in seat 2 at table 13. Blinds are 150/300 50 ante so 900 pre-flop. UTG raises to 600 cutoff calls and I flat with As6s and SB make it 2,100. UTG folds and cutoff calls and I complete 7,500 pre, the flop comes QsJs6d giving me bottom pair and nut flush draw..”aghhh!! this could get messy” I think. Big Blind leads for 4,000 and cutoff folds and I call, I consider re-raising but didn’t want to be blown of my equity with a re-raise if he had a set of queens or jacks.
“I’m putting you on an over pair” I say as I call as pot builds to 15,500
Turn is a blank and he bets 5K I call quickly and the river is a queen but no flush, pot 25,500
He checks and I shove 16,900 all-in and he sighs but call and I’m done and dusted. I’ve blown £220 in under 10 minutes, so Negreanu does it and is a genius and me a complete donkey. I thought the queen was a good card for me and he’d fold his Kings, who wants to bust on their first hand with just a bluff catcher? I’d even called his hand on the flop for him, perhaps the queen wasn’t the best bluff card in the deck.
Now I have to go back tomorrow at 2 pm and put the wrong right, I hope I have a happy ending otherwise it is a £440 weekend in the continues game that is poker.
If you bluff your opponent, he may get a read or find a call if you dress like I do below. I didn’t consider hard enough his view of my table image.
“Perhaps he is bluffing…” he may have thought and with good reason…be careful with your subliminal messages…
