Tournament night was a success once again last night. I won the first tournament, and was the first one out of the second tournament. Sure I got very lucky once to win the first one, but when it got to heads up, I had a 6:1 chip lead, so I must have been doing something right. The first hand, I was dealt a pair of queens, and two or three hands later I was dealt a pair of kings, both with friendly boards, so I was sitting in good position most of the night. I got very lucky on a hand where I raised with QQ, was reraised by the biggest stack at the table, moved all in, he called and flipped up AK. The flop brought and ace, but also two clubs (which he had none, and I had the Q) Turn and river were both clubs, and I doubled up. After that, it was pretty basic big stack pushing people around time all the way to the end. I didn’t have to show down too many hands, and I never called an all-in without the best hand, so I was playing pretty good.

The second tournament, we played omaha, and I was out in the third hand, when I misread the guy I was playing against - I thought he had the discipline to lay down a poor hand on a relatively scary board when I missed my draw, but he called me with bottom set, and my pair of Queens (with lots of missed straight draws) was no good. I mismanaged the pot size on that hand - 4 players seeing the flop and then calling a pot sized raise makes the thing get out of hand in a hurry.

Anyway, it was fun, and the same two people won the two tournaments as last time - Tim through cold calculating skill, and me through blind luck :)

Simpsons’ quote of the day: “It may be bleak, but this music is really getting to the crowd.” - Lisa