sjbeachbum81
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Well, heres the backround for the story. I go to vet skool on St. Kitts. This year the Marriot on the Island hosted the carribean poker classic. (http://www.carribeanpokerclassic.com). I can't afford the $6300 buy-in to the main event so I try qualifying for 220 super satalite. There shouldn't be too good a players, and some of the guys i used to play with were pro caliber.
The story: I can only aford the buy-in, and this is a rebuy tourny, starting with 1000 in tourny chips i sit tight, get a few hands, double up 2 or 3 times, up to about 6000. The player in seat three is knocked out (I am in seat 7), and a new player sits down. This player moves all in on the first hand, gets knocked out, rebuys, moves all in, knocked out, rebuys, wins the next hand. The player sits tight for about an hr, mean while the rebuy period ends. The next hand I am delt pocket ducks, flop comes 2, X, 7. Guy in 2nd position raizes about 1/4 his stack, I figure him for AK or so, move all in he calls with A7, draws nothing and is knocked out (My stack is now close to 10,000....10Xs the start amount). Several hands later I am under the gun, and dealt AK off suit. Blinds are 100/200 at this point. I raize to 800. Seats 8,9,1,2 all fold, player in seat 3 calls, player in seat 4 calls. Seats 5 and 6 fold. Flop is 367 rainbow. Seat 3 moves all in, seat 4 folds. The way that player 3 has been playing I put him on AQ, AJ, or a higher pocket pair then the board. At this time there is 2700 in the pot, his all in was for 750, I am getting 4 to 1 on my money, and if my read is correct I have correct pot odds to call. I do call, the cards are turned over, he has A4 off, and is a ~3/2 dog to lose the hand, turn is a Q, River is the 4 for his pair. He doubles up through me, I play as best as i can, and end up losing about 2 hrs later to AJ, with pocket jacks, catching the A on the river. Considering the player in seat three and seat 4 (Mike Kessler, WSOP 05, missed the final table by about 30 or 40 spots out of 5500) I think that would qualify as the best night of poker i've ever played. (PS, Marcel did end up qualifying, but was only there as a promotional thing since he is the chairman of IFP, the company running the tourny, and did not play in the main event) See pics below.   2/23/2006 2:32:17 PM
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