A friend from work let me play a $5 tournament at his house while we were waiting for some workers to finish cabinetry work in his kitchen. I had agreed to help him tile his kitchen floor since he taught me how to tile on my back patio. Eye for an eye. I had never played online poker before, but have always been an avid poker player. Home games, smarmy Lake Charles river boats, the Mirage poker room in Vegas... I was happy to play anywhere along the spectrum. However online was a new experience for me.
Back to the present: So I sat down at my computer after the kids had gone to bed for a quick 18 player hold 'em tournament. These types of tournaments magically take about 1 hour in almost every case. I won this one. This is mostly surprising becuase although I have a pretty good online tournament record, I was rusty. It has been years since I played online poker with any regularity.
The game was pretty tight, and I bobbled between the top 4 spots most of the game. And then the hand laid down that inspired me to write this blog entry. I was dealt an Ace and and 3. Resepectable cards to start out with, so I called. It was a pretty agressive betting match before the flop, which I was happy to see fall out as 3-A-3. I am so All In!
Are you kidding me! A full house on the flop... at this stage of the game! Unbelievable. You can see from the picture that the blinds were 600/1200 so we were pretty deep into the tournament. At this point, it was fighting for dollars since we knew we were all getting paid.
And then the 3 came on the river -- 4 of a kind -- with twenty four and a half thousand chips in the pot!
Yes, I won the tournament. A couple of hands came after this epic showdown, but they were merely procedural. This was one of the single most exciting hands of online poker I have played in the past 1 hour (which is how long it took me to turn my 6 dollars into 43). Not a bad hourly rate if you could do it consistently :)
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