Lodge Results for Sunday 07/16/06 - Preseason

At last poker is back at The Lodge after 3 weeks of nothing to do on Sunday except rot in front of the TV watching DVDs. This week was different because it was a heads up tourney and I was looking forward to playing. Too bad I only lasted one round. It was the same format as the National Heads Up Championship where brackets are used. We started with T100 in chips and the blinds were at 1-2. The nice thing is they were capped at 5-10 and each game lasted an average of 45 minutes to an hour with the exception of one game that went 2 hours so Dan raised the blinds to 10-20. I got a first round bye due to people who preregistered failing to show up. After waiting about an hour I finally got my chance to play. Started out with lousy cards the first 8 hands and then finally won a hand with king high. I stayed around T60-75 in chips for the first 3 blind levels and wasn't able to capitalize on my pocket aces halfway through. About 45 minutes in, I was down to T35 in chips and get A2s and push all in on the big blind. My opponent calls with KQ and the flop is QAx, turn is a K and the river is a Q and I go down to a full house. Overall it was interesting and it was easy to steal blinds at times, but I didn't have any cards to really play with cause I was missing the board most of the time and when my opponent bet, I didn't have any draws. Also I noticed when I hit, my opponent missed completely so I was never able to win a decent pot to get my stack up. No poker next week, but will be another preseason game the week after that.