Poker: Game of Champions!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Jim
I know you guys have been playing a lot these last weeks climbing your way in the 220K Rake Race in March and now in the UB 500 Race, of course aiming the $25,000 first place. It is easy to understand why you invest a significant amount of your valued time in this exciting journey. Maybe people who isn’t really into poker could find it fanatical or obsessive, probably the truth is that we are all crazy about Poker, myself included.
I clearly remember more than a year ago when I had no idea about Poker, I have some flashes on my mind about myself watching a Sports TV channel, there were some guys at a poker table with cool gear throwing chips in the middle, and rolls of Benjamin’s waiting to be claimed by the winner. I guess it was the WSOP, but never understood very well what they were doing.
When I first came to UB, the only clue I had about the game was that a deck of cards was involved, some chips, and of course a lot, lot of money. In a blink of an eye I found myself learning all kind of stuff: No Limit, Limit, Bet, Raise, Bluffs, and of course Bad Beats, yes unfortunately Bad Beats too.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in a friend’s home game, you know a low rebuy tournament, we usually allow only 2 rebuys. Now, picture this: I have a little more than half of the initial stack but still about 12 times the Big blind, I find J-J in late position at the right of the cutoff, no one limped in and I don’t feel in the mood to see a flop (those Jacks always betray me) so I raised All-in; the cutoff folds, so does the button and the small blind but the big blind, a player with about 14 Big blinds calls.
He showed 4-2 offsuit. You can imagine the rest of the story… the flop comes K-4-2, turn 9, river 2. Unbelievable! Rebuy please! Anyway, that’s what I love of this game. At the end bad players don’t last too long and I busted him when I hit a set in the flop with 5-5 and trapped him calling my bets with top pair.
When I heard the expression “Poker is a game of champions”, I really made it part of me to when I am at the table, I am sure all you guys are champions and will make find the glory at the top of the UB 500!
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