Chasing Chris Ferguson

I have been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to play poker. Really, Really! I believe yesterday was the first time I’ve logged into PokerStars to dip my toes in the fish filled shark infested waters in a span of four days. Withdrawal and severe feeling sorry for me set in.

The solution was to try to play last night while I was busy doing projects on the computer. I played a $1-2 7 card stud 8 live game and picked up $24 big bucks, and then invested $3 + 30c in a NLH tourney a bit later and busted out in the first level when I picked Q-Q and tried to run over K-K. I raised it to $100 - 10/20 limit - and he raised me to $250 (I believe). As I waited for everyone else to act, I was twitching between ‘call’ - ‘all-in’ - ‘call’ - ‘all-in’ and when everyone else folded, I pushed. He won, I was out and done for the night as I still had too much to do.

Today was another verse of the same song, a lot to do but things have settled a little bit so I jumped into a $1 +10c Razz tourney. The first hand out I watched the Q (high card opener) open for $10 (the max bet limit), a low card call $10 and another Queen showing called $10 also. Welcome to Razz, Ladies and Gentlemen, may the best low hand win!

I’m still in the game, having done nothing but high card in and steal one round of ante/bring-in. Just watching the flood of pairs and high cards roll on by.

I also signed up for a NLH tourney $2 + 20c. I have one hand tucked safely under my belt. A-K Hearts with 8-8-10 and two hearts, and a player with 4-4 went all-in for around $800. I called and snagged an Ace. It works for me, they do it to me all the time. Then, as if by magic, I picked up A-A, raised it to $100 got reraised, one person going all-in, two other callers, I went all-in. One player folded. A pair of 10’s caught one of their two card outs and I still have chips.

Amazingly, I have caught a pair in my three starting cards in Razz almost every hand. I’ve had two pair since the NLH game started.

Results later, game time is on.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.