« Brian Mulholland Is A Dunce | Main | RGP »
 | |
| Latest poker news |
May 20, 2004
Another Day
Well tonight I managed to make it pretty deep into the $162 limit tournament with a stack when 2 people with dominated hands hit 2 pair against my top pair with AK. So I ended up finishing just shy of the money which I seem to do often lately, except for the times when I finish nowhere close to the money.
It is truly amazing sometimes how you can play at the same table for 2 hours, not play on single hand voluntarily, raise under the gun, and get called by such hands as QJ and 33. On Party in the early rounds I pretty much just play extremely tight and open it up a bit when it gets close to show time. I am really convinced that simply playing tight can get you in the money enough to show a profit on this site, as long as you know what tight actually means. In fact even the idiots who think limping with KJ under the gun is consistent with tight play might be able to show a profit as long as that is the worst thing they do.
In the same tournament my friend John took the worst beat I have ever seen. He had pocket aces, flopped a set, bet, and got called by some dunce with 99. Sure enough both remaining nines in the deck came on the board giving John aces full and his opponent four of a kind. John was about an 832 to 1 favorite to win this pot according to my calculations. I will not be surprised if I live the rest of my life and never see a beat this bad again.
Also I think I may have met Peter Costa. He is a well known British player who has won a few major events. At first the fellow was saying he won this tournament which I looked up online and found Peter Costa was the winner of. Obviously nobody believed him at first and John came in the chat and was making fun of him. So the guy emailed my friend, gave his phone number, and talked to him for quite some time. It turns out that this fellow is either Peter Costa or someone who knows every single detail about Peter, has the accent, has a girl willing to pretend she is his wife Leah (which is Peter’s wife’s name and is part of his Party name), and is a decent player. So in the end we think it is really Peter. I find it rather strange that he would give out his phone number but I guess he just likes talking to new people or something.
Posted by themaroon at May 20, 2004 6:37 AM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.thepokerchronicles.com/mt-tb.cgi/209