Busted...

I decided to take a shot at the $100 + $25 buy-in Head Hunters tournament at Treasure Island tonight. In this tourny $50 goes to the prize pool and the other $50 is put on each player's head as a bounty. Anytime you knock a player out you collect their $50 bounty. Before the tourny started I bought a $5 cappuccino from Starbucks. Who are the bigger suckers, those playing the slots or people like me who spend $5 on coffee?

I started out pretty slow. I caught some decent hands pre flop and raised with them but pretty much missed when the flop came out and I check-folded or bet-folded after getting raised or check raised. Eventually I was down to about 2500 chips from a starting count of 5000. I finally won a decent pot when I turned a nut flush draw and open ended straight draw and went all in, forcing the other player in the hand to fold and scooping me a pot of about 2000. Nothing much happened until my last hand of the tournament....

We were in level 3 with blinds at 75-150 and I was in the big blind with about 3500 chips. I got dealt K2 and about 4 players saw a flop of K25 with two diamonds. I checked it and the next player bet 400. It was folded to me and I check raised to 1000. He went all in pretty much right away and I called. This player had been bitching for most of the tournament about how he was not getting dealt any hands and to his credit he was not playing the garbage he claimed to be getting dealt. He'd only played a few hands that I was aware of so when I c-raised him to 1000 I thought he had to have a high quality king, something like AK, KQ, or KJ. I had no intention of folding the hand at any point after I raised. I did not think this player would be able to get off of his king and I honestly thought that he would double me up.

I guess I was disappointed when he turned over A6 of diamonds. I was still a favorite but not as big a favorite as if he had had a king with another kicker. On the flop I was a 67% favorite.

The turn brought a non-diamond 4 which gave him three additional outs.

One of those outs came on the river, as a black 3 fell and I was sent packing.

I'm disappointed, yes, but what can I say.... I got all my chips in as the favorite and he got lucky. If people want to risk their tournament lives on a flush draw I certainly can't complain about that. Maybe he was counting 3 aces for outs too?