Yes, this weekend I was able to get into a live game. It was a small private touranment with a local poker group. It was a $40 buyin and ended up having 20 people. There were no rebuys or addons.
I made the final table and ended up being short stack with just on guy with a smaller stack then me (who happened to be my boyfriend). My dad was also at the table. We were down to 7 players and my dad was in the hand. The board showed 2 3 J. My dad pushes allin and gets a call. My dad shows trip 3’s and the other guy has trip 2’s. The river brought a one outer for the other guy for quad 2’s. My dad is knocked out in 7th.
Very next hand. Blinds are 500/1000. I am big blind. I have 5100 left. I look down and see 7/5 off. Everyone folds around and the small blind limps in. Flop is 7 8 7. I flopped trips. The small blind checks and I checked in order to attempt a slow play. Turn is a Q. He bets out 1000 and I push all in for 5100. He calls. He turns over Q 8. I figured I was golden with my trips. Could he hit a 4 outer? Your damn straight he did. He pops an 8 on the river for a full house. I don’t blame his call at all, but I swear it was like watching a game on the Merge Network. It was the same guy that had just hit a miracle one outer on my dad. I am out in 6th.
My boyfriend, who was the short stack coming into the final table, hung in there and made a great come back. He ended up taking 4th place and just about doubled his money back.
It was great to get out and play live. God how I miss that.
This is the last week of school, so I’ll have some free time on my hands for a couple weeks. Time to hit the local establishments.
