I made it about an hour and a half into the Ladies Event, and accumulated a few chips, then as it always seems to happen, I look down at A-A in the small blind. Blinds were 25-50. Everyone folded to the button who raised it $100 more. I raised it to $500 more (I think that was my raise but I could be mistaken by one chip). The big blind called the $600. The button folded. The flop was 9-8-8 with two diamonds. I bet $800. Got called. The turn was a 7, I bet 1300 and got called. The river was a 5.
Perhaps I should’ve went stone scared and checked (as it turns out that was my only hope). I bet 1300 again and got raised for my last 300 or so in chips. I called. Sure enough – pocket sixes took it down. I was out.
I’m not frustrated or irritated, I believe I played well and I hadn’t raised much or made any moves that cost me any chips up until that point. I had a good feel for the table but I did get the ‘dreaded Aces’ glimmer when I looked down at them. I, for some reason, could not put her on a six. Sorry…just the way the play had been going, I didn’t believe she had a 6 but thought she had an over pair to the board. The end result is I’m a donkey that couldn’t check the river and then fold.
Double damn, you expect this online but live it really blows. Well if I had been the BB you would have had the pot before the flop!
Glad you got to play anyway….but hate that the card fairy pooped on you again.
Reading the 1st Para; I put her on an 8, then I followed along with the story.
Linda, I’m pretty sure that it was Shannon Elizabeth that busted you…
Pauly, You are right, I went back and checked, even got her smiley faced picture.
That sucks. Well, for what it’s worth, she had aces cracked later, and is no longer in the tournament. Of course, if she’s reading this, she is probably pissed off that you didn’t immediately realize that you were knocked out by a “star.” (see, I put the punctuation inside the quote, lol)
In the comical sense of not realizing what her name was, I did know she was a star because Jack Effel came over to talk to her and 3 million photographers were taking pictures of her…that’s a dead give-away. She’s cute, and bubbly.
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In essence, I think she played the hand badly considering the play the first hour and a half at our table. If she thought I was woofing with A-K, she should have popped me on the flop (that’s what I would do anyway, just to see where someone was with that board) and she definitely had me covered. In retrospect, I had no win, she was coming even if I went all-in preflop, an all-in on the flop would have brought her – pot odds and she obviously thought I had nothing (or she knows the dealer, heh-heh). My only win was to check fold on the river and see if I could parlay a short stack up.