Turning Stone doesn't like Canadians.
Had a fun trip...but man was luck ever stacked against me alllllll week (cept for online, I actually did well playing on a laptop in the hotel room)
A key hand that could've changed my trip experience.
I'm UTG with :ah :ad at a 1-2 NL ring game. I raise to $20 (typical preflop raise was 12-20 and usually it would get at least 2-3 callers)
2 folds, a guy in mid position herein referred to as "potato head" calls. Seat 10 says: "I'll raise to fifty"
Potato head verbally calls out of turn and is quite excited about it.
I figure potato head has QQ-KK and maybe seat 10 has JJ or AK...they are both excited about their hands and I know potato is gonna call.
"All in for $220" I say.
"I reraise...allin $270" goes potato head.
seat 10 who has us both covered by a bit calls.
I show my :ah :ad
potato head has :ac :3d
seat 10 has: :as :ks
board comes spade, spade, spade.
goodbye!
That was my experience all week...I had my sets cracked, I had top two broken at least 3 times I can recall...like one where I had :9s :ts and the board came :9h :10c :2d but I'm against pocket Jacks and a 2 comes on the turn.
Did I have a good time? Hells ya! I would do it again. Had a lot of fun.
A key hand that could've changed my trip experience.
I'm UTG with :ah :ad at a 1-2 NL ring game. I raise to $20 (typical preflop raise was 12-20 and usually it would get at least 2-3 callers)
2 folds, a guy in mid position herein referred to as "potato head" calls. Seat 10 says: "I'll raise to fifty"
Potato head verbally calls out of turn and is quite excited about it.
I figure potato head has QQ-KK and maybe seat 10 has JJ or AK...they are both excited about their hands and I know potato is gonna call.
"All in for $220" I say.
"I reraise...allin $270" goes potato head.
seat 10 who has us both covered by a bit calls.
I show my :ah :ad
potato head has :ac :3d
seat 10 has: :as :ks
board comes spade, spade, spade.
goodbye!
That was my experience all week...I had my sets cracked, I had top two broken at least 3 times I can recall...like one where I had :9s :ts and the board came :9h :10c :2d but I'm against pocket Jacks and a 2 comes on the turn.
Did I have a good time? Hells ya! I would do it again. Had a lot of fun.
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Not so well sadly...not much I could do. MY very, very first hand in one of the tournaments I flopped a set and had some guy call half his stack on a 9 high flush draw (he didn't have overcards or any other draw etc) and he caught. My tournaments went no better than my ring games..I couldn't win a race to save my life...if I had AK vs 77, I wouldn't hit...if I held 77 vs AK, an A or K would fall...it was "just one of those days" that happened to spread over a few days.
How did the others do?