Lodge Results for Sunday 08/20/06 - Week 2

It appears my cards have gone pretty much dead this week. Only won 3 hands the entire tourney. I only had 3 pocket pair, JJ, 22 and AA, only the aces held up after I bet on a flop of nothing but low cards. I enjoyed the first table I was at, there was no excessive raising or donkey plays except one. Player to my right raises 4x the blinds with 99 and gets called by 67o. 67o catches a boat by the turn after flopping trip 6's. The only tough decision I had was when the blinds were 10-20 and I had KJ on the button in an unraised pot. The flop is J97 and I bet 30, player on the BB goes all in. I seriously consider calling, but it would have taken my whole stack if I lost so I decided to fold, not sure what he had because he never showed. I was moved to another table that was extremely loose with many raises and calls. I was running low on chips and went card dead. The blinds went up to 40-80 and I had 120 left. I folded a J9 UTG hoping to get something a bit better on the big blind. I wake up to 49o and UTG goes all in, gets called by the button and I decide to go on luck and I went all in for my last 40. UTG turns over KK and button turns over TT. Board is 92247 and I have three pair which is absolutely nothing and I am out with 3 tables left.

The tourney was run by Budweiser again with different directors. They did well on keeping the blinds at 20 minutes, but they did skip the 25-50 blind level and used a 40-80 level instead. One problem though that generated complaints was balancing tables. The table I was at had 9 players while another had 5 and a thrid had 6 players. Finally after enough complaining, players were moved to balance the tables. However, they responded to the complaints very rudely. They told the players to "Just keep playing cards and let us worry about balancing the tables".

On a side note, I did extremely poorly at Silver City this week being the 2nd player to bust out. I was one behind the button with AQ of diamonds. Button raises and me and another player call. Flop is AQJ of spades and it is checked to me and I decide to push all in. Button thinks and folds, other player thinks for about 2 or 3 minutes and reluctantly calls. I hope he is on a flush draw, but he turns over JJ for trips and I don't improve. Not sure if I played that incorrectly, but the main problem was not enough chips to start with and short blind levels. I wanted to gamble early to build a stack.