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August 20, 2005
Poker.ie game
Last night I ventured down to the Fitzwilliam to play in the Poker.ie €50+€5 Freezeout. 40 players turned up to play with everyone starting with 4000 chips and 20 minute blinds. Cian and Cormac supplied everyone with free bottles of Miller, although those unlucky enough to be drawn on table 4 upstairs were not allowed to partake as alcohol is only allowed on the balcony. My tournament started off well when I got lucky in a pot with JTs against the player to my right. I had called a raise and when the flop came two of my suit I called a bet. Turn was a Jack and I raised the bet this time. It was called and when a 10 appeared on the river I re-raised all in. Eventually he called with AJ and I doubled up to nearly 8000. I got up to just over 9000 partly by wielding the hammer with a raise pre-flop. I got two callers who both checked the 9 5 5 flop to me. A bet took it down with Rory showing a 9 as he folded. Nice. Of course I had to show. Shortly after that I took NickyOD up on a 5:1 bet on me winning and the BOK was on. I lost a few smallish pots to go back down to 6000. Got back to 7500 before losing 1500 straight away when Cian 'The Rock' decided to move all in over the top of my button raise. The next hand I pick up AQ and move in over the top of an early position raise. Big 'un decides after a lengthy dwell to call with JJ. The first card I see on the flop is a Queen but it is hiding the dirty Jack and I am down to 400 chips which go in with KJ to no avail. I was sent packing to the cash games and arrived just in time to get the last seat at the main €50 Omaha only game. I have grown to prefer Omaha to Holdem in cash games and have always done well in the main €50 game. For some reason I struggle at the feeder tables. I played a solid game for most of the 5 1/2 hours I played but a big mistake won me the biggest pot of the night! I ended up cashing out €1012 from my €200 buy in so was well pleased with my nights work.Posted by Mike Lacey on August 20, 2005 at 04:14 PM | Permalink