Headed out last night with the goal of winning my buy-in to the midnight MTT hosted at the Hard Rock each Wed and Thurs night. I sat down at a 1/2 table and did exactly that. I ran my buy-in up to about 2.5x and cashed out just in time to join the tourney.
In the first hand I played, I raised to 2.5x the BB with the 93 of clubs just to see what the table was like. I got two callers and the flop came 383! I checked, as did the other two. The turn was a rag and I checked again. The next player bet and the last guy folded. I pretended to think for a while and then raised all-in. He called and, when I showed my set of threes, he turned over A3. Gulp.
I was left with 125 chips and proceeded to play all-in and win the next three pots, running my stack up to about 1,800. Of course, a short while later, in the BB, I got a real hand and lost to a suckout… but it was fun.
So, why “dumbdumbdumb”? Because I then headed back downstairs and lost my original buy-in at another 1/2 table instead of going home a winner. I still finished up for the night – even after the tournament buy-in – but nowhere near as big a winner as I could have been.
Consolation: as I was leaving, Andy Dick walked in and I got to say hello. Nice guy… but very short.
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