Friday, April 28, 2006

On vacation

Down in Pheonix this week with the family. Found my way to a local casino and played in a NL tourney for $60 buy in. 120 players with 1.5k starting chips but blinds were going up every 20 minutes so M was dropping fast. Luckily my QQ held up and I almost doubled up against AQ. The crazy hand came when a dude trying to look like Phil Ivey with the big headphones sits down at the table. I watched him for the first few hands and he carries that "I am the best player" attitude. It gets to my BB and I see K9h and I see 4 limpers including the superstar... I push all in with blinds at 100/200 and I have a 2900 stack. The superstar calls right away and I figure I am screwed but when everyone else folds he turns over 56h. Since I have him covered I still can't imagine that he makes that call since he had over 2k chips at the time. If he pushed and I called that I can understand but this play is just horrible in my mind....

Anyone have any thoughts? It did give me more time to spend with the family. Oh and I did just pull off a 1st place finish in a Rio SNG. Starting to get better at those.

3 comments:

HCR said...

Fellow canadian wishing you a happy holiday. That call is just a bad play by the Ivey wannabe and you know it.

Link me up when you get back..

TripJax said...

The call, horrible. But you never divulged...I'm guessing he pulled a straight or frush out of his ass.

And I loves me some Rios.

CC said...

That's is an all-time horrible call. I can see raising and getting caught, but you never call with that all-in ever.