Wilma Poker

Here I am finally home after a long 4th of July weekend partying in the Hamptons. We have a huge heat wave here, and it is good to be back in my air conditioned apartment. I am now plunged back into my favorite sport: Texas Holdem Poker.

My two volumes of Harrington on Holdem have a lot of tear as I have read and reread them for the past two months, so here I am ready for some online poker at Pokerstars. I began with a $5 sit and go to get back in the game, and victory! Then I played in a $3 MTT with 3,800 players, I went out 309th in the paying places on a bad beat.

I had a pair of queens from the small blind and I raise to 3 BB. The big blind with a stack equivalent to mine reraised all in. If I won this hand I would have been in the top 5 in chips count, but if losed that I would have been almost out. I did not see him with kings or rockets, maybe AK. I hesitated but this spot was too good to pass, this was the third best starting hand after all, so I called. He showed AQo and I was a super favorite as he had only three outs. The flop came AA8, the turn was blank, the river a blank. Damn there are days when it is better not to wake up, but this is poker.

I am not discouraged so I start another multi table tournament online. I ‘m at a good table from the start. They raise and reraise with garbage, I do not touch any good hand but I’m patient and it pays. My good hands find a few good customers and it keeps me with an average stack until I double up with KK, finding myself in 7th position out of 17 remaining players.

Then I get AQ offsuit from the small blind, everyone folds, I bet 3600 as the blinds are 600/1200 and the big blind reraises all in. If I win this hand I would become 3rd in chips and the final table would be almost guaranteed, if I lose then I would be near elimination. Did I not just write the same thing at the beginning of this post?

This should be a fold without hesitation, no need to risk everything at this stage and AQo is not such a monster, leading to possible coin flips versus a pocket pairs. Anyway I called and he showed a pair of eights. Of course no ace or queen on the board.

I don’t think I took the wrong decisions in both tournaments. Luck was not there for me at that time, but it will be back. So I decided to try something else and I visited www.onlinevideopoker.com. This is a website dedicated to online video poker, a more peaceful type of game as you play the house, not the players.