It was a short lived experience this time for me at the table in the Double Mystery Bounty Main Event of the Beer Poker Tour London.
I took my seat during the second level of the day, with blinds at 200/400 with a 400 running ante.
During my first lap of the table I was dealt these monsters..
Q♣6♥
nah
J♠2♦
nope
Q♥4♣
uhuh
10♠3♦
pfft
K♠2♠
I very nearly played this one.
9♥5♦
give over
4♠3♣
Defended my big blind to this one, but the picture card heavy flop didn’t encourage me to continue.
Rather than getting too involved with any of this muck, i figured i’d just pay attention and see if I could suss out what kind of players I was up against.
The player in seat one was particularly aggressive, opening about 2-3 hands per round.
I continued to get similar monster hands for the next two levels, but found a few multi-pots that I could cheaply get into. But my hands didn’t really connect in any way with the boards and I went able to stay in any pots post flop.
Aware that I’m coming across like a rabbit in headlight, it’s hard not to notice that seat one was raising my big blind every time.
I eventually chanced it against him, but not on the big blind, flopping top pair with A♠9♠on a board of 9♥8♦5♥. He checked to me, I bet, he raised, I shoved, he called.
But of course, this time he had it… 9♦9♣
The turn was 6♣giving me a chance to chop if a seven would fall on the river. But alas, the last card to hit the felt was 8♥ and that, as they say, was that. Nine high, like a chump. Goodnight Jon Boy!
