Poker Concorde

After Wednesdays live game in which I came back from the brink of elimination to win, you might think I had used all my luck for the week. Nevertheless, I decided to go to Saturdays live game as well to see if my good run could continue. It was a rocky start and from 6,000 I had a few hands go awry in the first hour and slipped down to around 3,000.

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Our table was down to four handed as we waited for one more player to go out before splitting tables, and with blinds of 200/400 coming round quickly to exert pressure, I felt I had to act. I picked up (A,3) as the second player to act, and after the first hand folded, did something I probably shouldn’t. I usually do not like playing smaller Aces because when you raise you find yourself dominated by a bigger Ace so often. This was my immediate concern when my all in move was called, even though any Ace four handed is quite strong. My opponent had (Ah,Qh) but luckily I caught a three on the turn to double up.

After another pot where I managed to represent a 5 for a straight with enough effect to force (K,K) to fold on the turn, I had around 8,000. My 8,000 turned to 14,000 just before the final table when I slow played (A,Q) beautifully inducing a bet on a flop of (A,A,J) followed by an all in bluff on the turn (2).
The end came at the final table when I raised to 2,000 preflop with (Q,Q). There was one caller and the flop came down (8,6,2). I moved all in, not wanting to give my opponent the chance to catch an Ace or King on the turn. After much thought, he called, showing (J,J). The river was an extremely unlucky (Jd), which was an unfortunate way to go.

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