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07-07-2005, 02:28 PM
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Here are this week's finalists:
Article #1:
Since this week’s Write to Win topic states, "Lucky You", I must at least try and explain a painful memory of a certain poker hand.
I was at the Grand Casino poker room in Biloxi when the board comforted me with a straight flush. Holding the10 and jack of clubs the flop came, 7-8-9 of clubs.
The game was 1-4-4-and 8 and very aggressive - to put it mildly. Every round was capped and I did win the hand -unfortunately for me. You see, I was on the wrong end of the straight.
A player opposite of me was holding 5-6 of clubs, giving him the losing hand, yes - but thereby also a winning hand, since there was a bad beat jackpot for the tidy sum of $ 7,500.00.
I collected and began to stack my $100 plus in chips as I watched them pay the other player off in cash. As they say, winning is not everything.
In my world good luck bites just as hard as bad luck!
Article #2:
The year is 1993.
It’s July and I’m taking my first trip to Las Vegas for a 7 day and 6 night stay at the Stations Casino. I have tucked away $3000.00 for food, drinks and whatever else I want. My father and mother in-law, as well as my wife and our 4 year old daughter are also joining me. That’s right - a family vacation. We get off the plane and head to the hotel. It’s around 3:00pm when we arrive at the hotel and we unpack quickly then head down stairs.
My father in-law and I head straight for the craps tables while the girls go sight seeing. I pulled $100.00 out of my pocket, passed it on the table and got my chips. Within 5 seconds I’m pulling another $100.00 out. Needless to say I don’t last at the craps table very long so I walk around the casino for awhile looking at all the games. Blackjack, roulette, baccarat and, oh - lets not forget the slots. I also find the BOOK and if you’ve never been in a Vegas casino, the BOOK is the most alive place you can bet on anything.
So, being the newbie I get sucked in. My first bet is on a horse race. I put $10 on this horse to show and hit for $15.80. Not bad. In no time I make a $50.00 win, place, show bets and hit them. Four hours passes and my father in-law is standing over me saying something about dinner and how we should go. Is this man crazy? I’m winning ! I tell him to go on without me and I’ll catch up. He does.
It’s now 1:30 am and my father in-law is back again, - but this time he’s got this look in his eye, so I say “what?”. He tells me to come with him – he has something to show me. He leads me to a room I missed while walking around. The sign over the door says “POKER ROOM”.
“It’s heaven”, he says to me. We go in and what happens next is the stuff family history is made of.
He sits down at a table by the door and I stand by the rope to watch (I had never played the game before). It is TEXAS HOLD’EM! That’s right - my introduction to Hold’em was in Las Vegas watching people who play all the time (some for a living) and by 2:15 I’m sitting at the table next to the old man getting my butt handed to me by 3 guys and 2 old ladies. Still, I’m having the time of my life.
As the night goes on and people leave, it gets down to one table. I’m sitting 2 chairs away from my father in-law playing a card game I had just learned 4 hours earlier and I’m holding my own.
Now, lets get down to the meat and potato’s of my story:
There’s 7 of us at the table it’s $15-$30. Dealer button is sitting right in front of me my father in-law has the big blind. I’m dealt A,J spades. The bet comes around to me and I raise, my father in-law raises back and I call. There are 3 other players in the hand. Flop comes Ks, 8d, Qs. My father in-law bets $100.00 there are 2 folds a call. I call. Third street comes: 3d check, check and I check. Here comes the river ……. 10s! I feel all warm inside and the room starts to spin but I get myself together and I hear all-in from across the table. I look up to see who it is and - you guessed it – it’s my father in-law. All I can think is: What could he have to call all-in? The other guy folds so in that long 10 seconds I think: Do I want to spend the next 6 days with a pissed off father in-law? Do I want to take everything he’s got?
I call. He has trip K’s and when I lay down my ROYAL, he looks over at me and smiles. He says, “Good hand. I would have played it different”.
~Kgant1963
Here are this week's finalists:
Article #1:
Since this week’s Write to Win topic states, "Lucky You", I must at least try and explain a painful memory of a certain poker hand.
I was at the Grand Casino poker room in Biloxi when the board comforted me with a straight flush. Holding the10 and jack of clubs the flop came, 7-8-9 of clubs.
The game was 1-4-4-and 8 and very aggressive - to put it mildly. Every round was capped and I did win the hand -unfortunately for me. You see, I was on the wrong end of the straight.
A player opposite of me was holding 5-6 of clubs, giving him the losing hand, yes - but thereby also a winning hand, since there was a bad beat jackpot for the tidy sum of $ 7,500.00.
I collected and began to stack my $100 plus in chips as I watched them pay the other player off in cash. As they say, winning is not everything.
In my world good luck bites just as hard as bad luck!
Article #2:
The year is 1993.
It’s July and I’m taking my first trip to Las Vegas for a 7 day and 6 night stay at the Stations Casino. I have tucked away $3000.00 for food, drinks and whatever else I want. My father and mother in-law, as well as my wife and our 4 year old daughter are also joining me. That’s right - a family vacation. We get off the plane and head to the hotel. It’s around 3:00pm when we arrive at the hotel and we unpack quickly then head down stairs.
My father in-law and I head straight for the craps tables while the girls go sight seeing. I pulled $100.00 out of my pocket, passed it on the table and got my chips. Within 5 seconds I’m pulling another $100.00 out. Needless to say I don’t last at the craps table very long so I walk around the casino for awhile looking at all the games. Blackjack, roulette, baccarat and, oh - lets not forget the slots. I also find the BOOK and if you’ve never been in a Vegas casino, the BOOK is the most alive place you can bet on anything.
So, being the newbie I get sucked in. My first bet is on a horse race. I put $10 on this horse to show and hit for $15.80. Not bad. In no time I make a $50.00 win, place, show bets and hit them. Four hours passes and my father in-law is standing over me saying something about dinner and how we should go. Is this man crazy? I’m winning ! I tell him to go on without me and I’ll catch up. He does.
It’s now 1:30 am and my father in-law is back again, - but this time he’s got this look in his eye, so I say “what?”. He tells me to come with him – he has something to show me. He leads me to a room I missed while walking around. The sign over the door says “POKER ROOM”.
“It’s heaven”, he says to me. We go in and what happens next is the stuff family history is made of.
He sits down at a table by the door and I stand by the rope to watch (I had never played the game before). It is TEXAS HOLD’EM! That’s right - my introduction to Hold’em was in Las Vegas watching people who play all the time (some for a living) and by 2:15 I’m sitting at the table next to the old man getting my butt handed to me by 3 guys and 2 old ladies. Still, I’m having the time of my life.
As the night goes on and people leave, it gets down to one table. I’m sitting 2 chairs away from my father in-law playing a card game I had just learned 4 hours earlier and I’m holding my own.
Now, lets get down to the meat and potato’s of my story:
There’s 7 of us at the table it’s $15-$30. Dealer button is sitting right in front of me my father in-law has the big blind. I’m dealt A,J spades. The bet comes around to me and I raise, my father in-law raises back and I call. There are 3 other players in the hand. Flop comes Ks, 8d, Qs. My father in-law bets $100.00 there are 2 folds a call. I call. Third street comes: 3d check, check and I check. Here comes the river ……. 10s! I feel all warm inside and the room starts to spin but I get myself together and I hear all-in from across the table. I look up to see who it is and - you guessed it – it’s my father in-law. All I can think is: What could he have to call all-in? The other guy folds so in that long 10 seconds I think: Do I want to spend the next 6 days with a pissed off father in-law? Do I want to take everything he’s got?
I call. He has trip K’s and when I lay down my ROYAL, he looks over at me and smiles. He says, “Good hand. I would have played it different”.
~Kgant1963