my horrendous edmonton report

BrentMoreau · Oct 12,2004, 02:21 PM

like many other players around these hear parts, i made the journey to edmonton last week, although i only played in one event, the 300+30 Limit event. the reason being that i am not a particularly great card player!
very brief: started the tourney with $5000 with of chips and at the dinner break (4 levels) i was down to around $2800. after the break i caught fire in the frist couple of levels with A10 (3 times out of 5 hands), poxket queens and pocket kings. with the queens i had a raise in front of myself in the small blind, and i re-raised before being re-raised again myself, so i just called. i then proceeded to check blind, and low and behold my queen hit with two rags, and i re-raised, she folded=i shouldve milked that pot and a very bad play by myself. Now everything starts to fall apart. I have 35o in the big blind, small blind limps in everyone else is out. flop comes 2 4 9 rainbow. SB bets, i call, turn comes a 3, now he checks, i bet, he calls and cgoes all in for the little extra he had, he turns over A2 for a pair of 2s, and ihave 35 for a pair of 3s and an open-ended straight. River card is the 5= my hheart sinks, he apologizes for hitting it as he counts up MY chips! next round of the button i catch JJ in the SB and raise with one guy who limped in EP calling. flop comes KJ5. I think for a minute and decide to bet it right out. He calls and goes all-in for whatever he had left. turns over a Q10o and low and behold hits his 9 on the turn. Table groans for me! now i am one of the short stacks and catch AK, play it poorly and am taken advantage of for it=my bad! second break, i am very short stacked at $1000. Shortly thereafter (blinds are 300, 600) i push all in in MP with K10s, everyone folds to BB, she calls, with 10 8 and naturally spikes an 8 on the river=game over, i finished somewhere in the middle of the pack.

all in all though i had a good time, played some ring games at the baccarrat and palace ( both kind of shotty card rooms to be kind) but yellowhead was really nice and i as always the ppl in edmonton were great. side note: i was surprised at how popular omaha is out there and those "split" games are.
and the way i see it, i can only get better, or so i hope!

all_aces · Oct 12,2004, 02:25 PM

Entertaining report, thanks Brent. You travelled all the way to Edmonton just to play in one event?

Regards,
all_aces

BrentMoreau · Oct 12,2004, 04:16 PM

yeah, i was actually out there for 3 days, played a lot of regular ring games. the reason i went was because my mom works for air canada, and it therefore only cost me a whopping $28 roundtrip airfare (as long as i dont mind standby, which i dont, especially going to aplace like that where the flights arent usually that bad)! or else i would not have gone, as i do realize where my skills lie, but i had the week off of school, so i figured what the hell. what are the odds, the hotel cost me 7 times as much as my flight!? lol

Kellenace · Oct 12,2004, 09:18 PM

sounds like a good time, Im from edmonton and play at the Palace regularly, just wondering why you were not to fond of it? i love it for the fact i can play straight holdem.

Adam** · Oct 12,2004, 09:26 PM

Any chance I could use her for a flight to Ontario

Just wondering.

Don Carlito · Oct 12,2004, 10:42 PM

Brent That JJ hand was a heartbraker....well at least you had a good time in Edmonton - beats playing online anyday!

I'll be @ the Blue tomorrow for the mini tourney. If you still have some loot to spare come down...

Leave me a message on my cell. [msn name]

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ice · Oct 13,2004, 09:36 PM

looks like you were on the wrong end of some pretty bad beats, I feel for ya :banghead:

Tilter · Oct 13,2004, 11:29 PM

So tough. Nice playing though. WHere do you find out about these cheap flights? I woud go to Edmonton/Alberta and play one of those tournies for sure!

Don Carlito · Oct 14,2004, 02:01 AM

Brent:

Well I came third in my first and only tourney [chopped it 3 ways @ 3/1/1].

It was me, Duncan[the guy that won 3 in a row - gotee], and the dude that you always see @ Casino Rama.

I was chip leader for the majority of the game and when it was the three of us, Duncan rivered me twice which caused a huge blow to my stack.

I had 55 preflop @ the button, I go all-in.

Duncan calls and shows an A9

flop shows a K5Q

Turn shows a 10

River shows a J

My heart stopped...lol

I didn't like the dude from Casino Rama, he was pretty mouthy. He initially refused to chop 3 ways with a rude and arrogant "NO". After the blinds got to 32/64 and I had recovered some strength with a couple of wins I looked at him and said:

"Dude do you wanna split 3 ways now? This is the last time am going to ask you"

looking back I wish he would have said no, because after talking to Duncan we would have taken him out just on principle. UGH

sorry I left so suddenly...girlfriend issues lol

BrentMoreau · Oct 14,2004, 12:13 PM

yeah i was wondering what the hell happened to you. Yeah that guy was running his mouth in my game, i wanted to hit him, he was sitting right beside me and i thought i was gonna go insane, he thought he was the king shit. I was like "that guy you beat in second was a pretty good player, ive seen him win three in a row" and then he's like "naw, not really". i finished well back, just couldnt get cards worth shit, broke even at 5-10.

and for everyone else, no i cant get cheap flights for you, unless you can prove my mother had an illegitimate child!