Myself, Jon, Andy and Bill went to Maxims Casino in Reading for the Texas Hold'em £20 re-buy tournament.
There were 41 runners (after they all turned up!) on 5 tables and with plenty of re-buys the prize pool was fairly chunky with £60 for 10th through to just over £1000 for 1st place.
Andy was on my table, seated two to my right, Bill and Jon were on two other separate tables to begin with, but when Jon's table was split up he was seated on Bill's table (to Bill's right)
I had a elderly gentleman to my immediate right... reportedly 92 years old ! but he was a bit spaced out and seemed a little confused at times. With or without his glasses he had trouble seeing the cards and insisted on flashing his hole cards around when he was in a hand (despite being told!)
Things were quiet for me to begin with. I limped in a fair bit but folded to any bets on the flop. The whole table seemed to be playing like this in the beginning, so all very pleasant and friendly. It didn't last and found myself sitting on the BB with K-5 and checked to see the flop. Amazingly the flop was K-7-5 ! The SB checked, so I also checked. There was a small bet which SB called but I raised it up and only SB called (the elderly confused gent) The turn was a blank and saw me all-in and the SB called. He showed A-7 (1 pair) to my 2 pair but the river was another 7 leaving me a little disappointed and down to 300 odd chips. Luckily I could re-buy when below 2000 chips so reloaded
It all went quiet again for me but managed to raise a couple of times and take the blinds, then found myself with K-K and heads up against elderly gent again. He wasn't lucky this time and decided not to re-buy after I took all his chips (well, got my chips back!) although now had Andy to my immediate right
Andy was doing well, mainly by flopping a low straight and getting all-in with it so by the break I was on around 7800 chips (unfortunately had bought 7000 of them) and Andy was on 17000 odd and Jon was on around 7000 The average was 7600 so wasn't in bad shape.
After the break the table tightened up a bit as expected, but all of a sudden there was a raise which Andy called from the BB. The flop was A-K-x and Andy bet out, was re-raised then immediately went all-in. After a long think, he was called. The caller had A-Q but Andy had A-J With no improvements Andy was down to around 1700 chips !
A few hands later I was on BB with pocket 4's and the same fellow made a standard raise. I thought he was playing a little loose after his big win, so decided to call. With a K-x-x flop I was a little worried about the K but decided to bet out and was called. The turn was another low card, so bet out again and was called again, so was pretty sure I was behind and checked the river (another low card) He bet out 500 but decided I had to call in case he was on A-x type cards, but he showed A-A !! This left me with around 5000 in chips, so still plenty of play left.
Somewhere around this time, there was a huge discussion going on on the next table (Bill and Jon's) about someone going all-in out of turn... the tournament director was called for a ruling... not sure what it was all about or the outcome, but seemed to involve Bill !!
With the blinds up to 400-200 I got K-Q in the BB. There were three limps then Andy decided to go all in for 700 Unfortunately for Andy it was automatic calls for everyone and 5 players saw the flop of Q-9-x With 3500 in the pot and only appx 3000 back, I decided to go all-in and got called by the lady to my left. Everyone else folded so we all went on our backs. Andy had pocket 4's and the lady had Q-7 so I was in good shape. Unfortunately a 7 came on the river, putting both myself and Andy out of the tournament !!
It was not long after that Bill joined us on the tables and soon after Jon was also out.... so not a great show for the CamberleyBoyz in the end
Approximate finishing positions were
Andy 31st
Mike 30th
Bill 25th
Jon 20th
In the end, I felt there was only one hand where I wasted my chips and had two bad beats at key times, so felt happy with my overall performance on the night, although obviously disappointed with my early exit. Already talking about going to on the Sunday £50 freezeout tournaments :-)
I didn't even have a great night on the Blackjack or Roulette, so ended the night down.... but not too much, so still have got most of my casino fund intact ;-)
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