Poker Tropical

The following hands show how quickly a tournament can change in poker, as my reasonable stack of 16,000 disappeared in the space of three or four hands.

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The first of these hands involved me trying to force my way to a pot on the turn, when I really should have known that I was being slow played when I was flat called on the flop. This led to a hand shortly afterwards when I was probably still a little frustrated by my error. I had 1,200 already invested in the pot from the big blind, and one of the players moved all in for around 4,200. This would mean that around half my remaining stack was on the line, but I felt my opponent could be weak as the raise had come from late position. With (Kc,Qs) I made the call, and was delighted to see the hand I was up aginst, (Q,10). I couldn’t ask for a better position to be in, and was happy enough with the flop and turn that missed both of us. With only three tens left in the deck for my opponent to hit, I was left feeling desperately unlucky as the (10s) landed on the board.

Still hurting somewhat from the previous hand, I decided to take a shot at the blinds with (10h,Jh). For some reason the big blind decided to call with (Ks,3c) and neither of us hit any of the board cards.

Each of these hands played their part in ending my tournament, but I did not really feel at fault for the second two hands. I had to get aggressive with a hand soon when I picked up (Jh,10h) because if you wait too long, you get blinded down so low that several players call you when you do push the rest in.

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