Tournament

[bcholmes]

Every once in a while, my building has a poker tournament. Pretty much every night they've played, I've either missed the announcement, or I'd need to be out of town. But tonight I caught the game. The payouts were strange. Second place gets their buy-in back, and first place takes the rest.

When it was just down to me and one other guy (who had to leave in a bit), we decided to split the pot.

Comments

[sarah-dragon.livejournal.com]

What kind of poker is it? Poker, poker or Texas Omaha stakes Hold'Em thing?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Texas Hold'em.

[sarah-dragon.livejournal.com]

Still thats pretty cool. How long have you played? Poker in general?

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Monies!!

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I've been playing for a few years, but fairly infrequently. I play maybe 8 times a year. I'd love to play more, but finding players (who want to play more frequently) is a challenge.

[sarah-dragon.livejournal.com]

Same here. I can't complain because I get quite a bit of other type of gaming in, but I would love a local poker night, tis much fun.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Nice going. Any particularly memorable hands?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Why are the bad beats always more memorable than the other hands?

I think the funniest hand of the night happened just after winning a pot with pocket tens. The very next hand, I was dealt another pair of tens. I raised it up before the flop and two positions later, another guy (on a short stack) went all in. Everyone else went out, so I called the guy. He had the black tens; I had the red tens.