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Humphrind

10-18-2004, 09:13 PM Post subject: My wife let me post this

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Hey all. I’m sorry I haven’t been posting as much as I used to. I don’t have anything specific taking up my time. But I find myself with barely enough time to read the posts on here, let alone comment on most of them. I still try to post stuff. But I have seen myself not thinking things through and making mistakes almost on every post. I’ll try to clear myself up and put more thought into my posts.

But this post is about a game I went to last night. A local tourney that my friend held. $15 buy-in with about 25ish people. Most of these people were new to me. But I asked my friend how the competiton was, as he had played with most of these people before. He told me there was stiff competition. I like that. And I had my FTR visor to help me through.

Mrs. Humphrind was there with me. And through some odd draw of the spot, she sat next to me at the same table (we drew position from a hat) She did well early on. She caught a bluffer and beat him with 2nd pair (She was very proud of her read) Another hand she caught quads on the river and played perfectly into an over-bettor with a high full house. I won a few pots and lost a few pots. Raised in UTG with AA (4XBB) and everyone folded around. Apparently, I get too much respect, because out of the first 10 pots I won, I think 2 of them went to showdown. A mixture of me over-betting to successfully chase out draws, and me picking up on weakness to get people out.

Then our table split up and my cards suddenly went very cold. I didn’t have the stack to sustain this dry spell, so I was soon blinded down and chose to make my last attempt with 99. I was called by 2 people. 1 with overs and the other with a lower pocket pair. The 1st card out was a 9 and I more than tripled up. This took me into a nice blind stealing session where I hit a streak of OK cards and great opportunities. I think I took my stack from about 1,000 (before the 99) to about 8,000.

Finally enough people went out that we combined to 1 table and I was again seated at the same table as Mrs. Humphrind. We were down to 10 with the top 7 paying. It got pretty crazy at that point. The big blind was 1,000 and the average stack was about 6,000. A few short stacks kept going all-in and doubling up. I started getting blinded down again
and I only had a couple of pots to carry me through this. But it was soon down to 6 and we felt pretty safe, all guaranteed a profit. I caught big stack in a bad way. I was UTG with 44 and called the blind. Big stack acted immediatly after me and went all-in. Eveyone folded and I called praying that he only had 2 overs. Nope, He had TT. The turn gave me an outside straight draw. The river triped me up and I had a decent stack
again. Then on the next hand I had AK in BB. UTG went all-in again. The table folded to me again and I called again, but this time I had him covered. UTG showed QQ and once again I caught a river card (K) to win the hand. Now after 2 hands, I had taken big stacks entire bankroll and I was big stack of the table.

I switched to blind-stealing mode. Raising with nothing. I was CO on my wife’s BB. A few folds and I went all in with Q2o. She really thought about it, but folded, and I showed the blind steal.

Stack switches and Mrs. Humphrind caught a couple of good flops with A8o and doubled up twice. She was back in the game. We all went about back to even with 4 people left. I had 55 on the button. UTG raised. I re-raised. SB (Mrs. Humphrind) folded. BB went all-in. UTG raised all-in. Now my decision. I have BB covered but UTG has me covered. I have put in less than half my stack already.

So before I go on. I have to ask. What would you do? Call all-in or fold?

I called. BB showed ATo and UTG showed AKs. UTG caught a flush on the river and BB and myself both went out. I got 3rd place! But still regret my decision on the last hand.

Mrs. Humphrind was now down to heads-up facing a guy with about a 5 to 1 chip lead on her. She played very well and took the stacks to about even. But then lost it all on 1 hand. He went all in with K9 and she called with 44. and 9 on the flop gave her 2nd place.

Overall we spent $15 each to enter this tournament. I took $50 for 3rd place and she took $75 for 2nd. Net profit + $95. Not a bad night.

So now I still have to face the fact that Mrs. Humphrind is so much better than I am. It’s really odd. I can read her like a book. And she constantly says I intimidate her at the poker table. But she is the one that places better than me in almost every tournament.
But I’m not hurt. As I’ve said before: I can cook and clean circles around her!

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Corey

10-19-2004, 02:18 AM

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Neat story especially that your wife can play poker.

But you still got beat by a woman!!! jk heh

Corey

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10-20-2004, 05:09 AM

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Hey That's cool Humph.

My wife let me reply to this post.

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