AQ has not been good to me…
Another week means more games of poker. I haven’t played online much this week. However, every Tuesday night is Big Syd’s Poker Night.
This week’s game was held in Greenbelt at Scotty’s Place. The game was capped at 20 players due to an A/C problem at his place. We wanted to try and maintain a “cool” number. Lol
Although I played some decent poker (not good poker), decent just didn’t cut it on this night. Critical hand of the night for me is the one that sent me to the rail. Blinds are 150-300 I believe and I’m UTG with A3. I decide to make a move and go all-in. It folds all the way around to my good friend Alex who ponders for a minute and then calls with AQ. I know its over now. Flop comes down and helps neither of us. But wait. The turn brings me a 3. Don’t go nowhere folk! We see the river. A Q. Yep, A Queen! To the rail I go. Womp-Womp! Didn’t even make the final table.
Well, I’m not one to fall and not get back on the horse. So, Wednesday, I find out Brian of MD-Poker.com is having a tournament at his place. I don’t usually play live on Wednesdays. However, I’m itching for a game. So, I shoot out to Laurel for this game and arrive to the smell of hamburgers cooking on the grill. I’m digging this! lol So, I grabbed one of those big ole Texas burgers that Brian cooked on the grill and prepared myself for a good night of poker.
We started with 18 players. No, make that 19 players. SuperDave showed up just in time to be put to the test on whether or not he should call my ALL-IN that I made pre-flop with…..Hold on…..Should I say what I had just in case he is reading this….Hmmmm…..OK……I think it was either JJ or QQ. I really cant remember this long after the game. Well, he said he had 1010 and if that was the case, I had him beat pre-flop. Good fold SuperDave.
Well, Fast Forward to the ending. I make it to the final table. I’m sitting healthy with a nice stack. I play some good final table poker and make it down to 5 (Tourney is paying the top 4 finishers). Can anyone tell where I’m about to go with this? Lol Anyway. I get the hand of AQo and I’m about to send the price of poker up a bit when Scotty decided he wants to take the lead and raised to about 3200 from early position (blinds are 500-1000 at this point. Now, I have been playing with Scotty for a while I’m thinking he has some paing but not as good as my paint. And I didn’t even want to put him on a middle pair. So, I ponder and decide its time to make a stand and go for the gusto. 4th Place only payed double the buy-in and I really wanted the 1st Place prize. So, I gamble with my AQ and went over the top of him for all my chips. About another 4600 on top of the 3200. He Calls and shows KJ. I knew it. Just as I thought. A little paint. Of course, I feel the suckout coming. I mean, I actually felt it in my bones. Flop comes down K-x-x. Yep, I’m doomed unless an A falls. The turn is a K. Cancel Christmas because it really sucks to be me. River, of course, is no help and home I go. Good Hand, Scotty!!!! Just be glad I didn’t know what you were driving last night or you might have been changing a flat. Oh well. That’s poker. AQ is a monster in so many ways. And I’m scared of that Beeyah-Beeyah!!!
-Big Syg
This week’s game was held in Greenbelt at Scotty’s Place. The game was capped at 20 players due to an A/C problem at his place. We wanted to try and maintain a “cool” number. Lol
Although I played some decent poker (not good poker), decent just didn’t cut it on this night. Critical hand of the night for me is the one that sent me to the rail. Blinds are 150-300 I believe and I’m UTG with A3. I decide to make a move and go all-in. It folds all the way around to my good friend Alex who ponders for a minute and then calls with AQ. I know its over now. Flop comes down and helps neither of us. But wait. The turn brings me a 3. Don’t go nowhere folk! We see the river. A Q. Yep, A Queen! To the rail I go. Womp-Womp! Didn’t even make the final table.
Well, I’m not one to fall and not get back on the horse. So, Wednesday, I find out Brian of MD-Poker.com is having a tournament at his place. I don’t usually play live on Wednesdays. However, I’m itching for a game. So, I shoot out to Laurel for this game and arrive to the smell of hamburgers cooking on the grill. I’m digging this! lol So, I grabbed one of those big ole Texas burgers that Brian cooked on the grill and prepared myself for a good night of poker.
We started with 18 players. No, make that 19 players. SuperDave showed up just in time to be put to the test on whether or not he should call my ALL-IN that I made pre-flop with…..Hold on…..Should I say what I had just in case he is reading this….Hmmmm…..OK……I think it was either JJ or QQ. I really cant remember this long after the game. Well, he said he had 1010 and if that was the case, I had him beat pre-flop. Good fold SuperDave.
Well, Fast Forward to the ending. I make it to the final table. I’m sitting healthy with a nice stack. I play some good final table poker and make it down to 5 (Tourney is paying the top 4 finishers). Can anyone tell where I’m about to go with this? Lol Anyway. I get the hand of AQo and I’m about to send the price of poker up a bit when Scotty decided he wants to take the lead and raised to about 3200 from early position (blinds are 500-1000 at this point. Now, I have been playing with Scotty for a while I’m thinking he has some paing but not as good as my paint. And I didn’t even want to put him on a middle pair. So, I ponder and decide its time to make a stand and go for the gusto. 4th Place only payed double the buy-in and I really wanted the 1st Place prize. So, I gamble with my AQ and went over the top of him for all my chips. About another 4600 on top of the 3200. He Calls and shows KJ. I knew it. Just as I thought. A little paint. Of course, I feel the suckout coming. I mean, I actually felt it in my bones. Flop comes down K-x-x. Yep, I’m doomed unless an A falls. The turn is a K. Cancel Christmas because it really sucks to be me. River, of course, is no help and home I go. Good Hand, Scotty!!!! Just be glad I didn’t know what you were driving last night or you might have been changing a flat. Oh well. That’s poker. AQ is a monster in so many ways. And I’m scared of that Beeyah-Beeyah!!!
-Big Syg
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