~~ Bridgie's Daily Poker Rant 8/4/07

Some people write poetry, I write a Daily F**king Poker Blog, but that's just how I roll.

Today's game of choice was No limit Hold'em.

The tournament started innocently enough with me winning one of the first few hands. I played 10-9, and the flop was 8-5-3. Not great, but with two over cards, I could hang around. Next card was a 9 giving me top pair but with only a 10 kicker and being first to act, I checked. There were about 6 people in the hand and the fourth one finally bet...120 chips...I was the only one to call. The river was a troublesome card for me, an 8 which paired the board. Since I was first to act I checked not knowing what the bettor over there was going to throw at me. But he checked, too, which made me think he had two over cards, maybe K-J or somesuch.
So I took the pot. I started to check the hand history to see what he had. At that exact moment our table was closed and then I began having connection problems that lasted me through several tables.

At one point, I was connected enough to see the action and dialogue, but not connected enough to play. One of the players typed in something like "Do you XXXing realize that you're slowing down the XXXing game?". I think he was talking to me but I couldn't respond. If I could I would have asked him "Do you f**king understand what f**king disconnected means or are you just f**king stupid?" By the time I was connected it was a bunch of hands later, so the moment was lost. I was able to get in some hands and eventually drew 9-9, limped in for 200 pre-flop then faced a raise to 1,000 still pre-flop. So I re raised all in (2,500) and the dude called with pocket Jacks. It was one of those rare moments where all my chips were in the pot with the weaker hand. To make matters worse, the flop had a Jack so I was quickly toast.

Even though I was around long enough to beat almost 1,700 players (2,305th out of 4,000), I was only connected enough to play 14 hands, 10 of which I folded pre-flop. Of the 4 I didn't fold pre-flop, I won exactly one of them (described above).

...Bridgie