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The championship ( I lost and I won}

03-13-2011 08:51:37 PM

The championshhip was great at Coral's Seafood in Worcester , MA.
The doors were open right on time and we were all assigned our seats.
I was seat 1 table 19 the first day and at break I had over 130,000 in chips.

At second break I was over 200,000 and things were going well.

I went up against pocket aces with a much inferior hand and won about 200,000 more.

I got my chip stack up to 420,000 and was in fairly good shape with three tables left.

At some point before this Francisco was seated at my table and we entered into a hand together. I had jack, 9 of hearts and I was in the small blind.. The blinds were 4,000- 8,000 with a 1,000 ante at this time.

I called the blind and my oppenent checked.. The flop was Jack of clubs, 7 of hearts and 4 of hearts.

here is my mistake I checked it,instead of pushing or raising frst.
.. He bet 25,000 which I called. The turn was a 4 of spades and I checked it again and he bet 25,000 again.. I re-raised all in with over 250,000 and he called.

I turned over my jack nine and he actually got up and started to leave and turned over King, queen off
suit . He started to congratulate me and then the mighty river , the nasty mean unpredictable river hit.


A queen. I lost over 270,00 in that one hand it crippled me and of course now the stupidness set in.

l lost it mentally and went down hill. I finished in the top 30. Less than 30th place at number 24 or very
close to that as I counted the remaining players at that time..

I Lost the opportunity to go deeper and finish in the top 10 but I won because I gained more experience about the play of certain hands and exectued well except for this one wrong move.

The right move I think may have prompted my opponent to fold.. A rerasie would have at least made him think twice about the hand and what I actually had.


Day two was a disaster and I totally did not have the mental part of the game under control and the cards were not coming to me like they were on day 1.

Pocket nines