Texas hold'em -- August 27, 2005
Normally, we don't allow wives, girlfriends, women in general to join our monthly ritual, but tonight we made an exception for Shelly Zielinski. She'd just graduated from an advanced nursing program and Tom wouldn't have been able to make it otherwise.
Nine players, clockwise from 1st deal: Jonathan, Won, Frenchy, Ken, Clint, Shelly, Tom, Sam, Nathan.
As play began, someone brought up payout amounts. Unfortunately, Clint stated "top 3" while my attention was elsewhere, and everyone took Clint's word as gospel. This would cause trouble later.
Shelly called Sam to a showdown and "overturned" his boat. Shelly's J's over 2's beat Sam's 2's over J's, with a pair of J's and a 2 on the board.
Just past the no-limit mark, with 4 diamonds showing, Ken goes all in. Frenchy feels the pressure and folds. Instead of just mucking his hand, Frenchy turns up and shows he was holding Jd. Just to spite him, Ken shows that he had Td as he rakes in the pot.
Clint had been getting his drink on and by 10:30, he was doing Peter Griffin (from the show Family Guy) impressions -- "I'm drunk" and singing "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Painful.
At around 10:45, Tom became 1st to bust out when he went all in against Clint. Clint's 2 pair A and 6 held up.
Nathan goes all in after the flop against Ken. Ken calls. They turn up -- Ken has cowboys, Nathan has bullets. Nathan's bullets hold and he doubles up.
Next hand though, Ken makes chicken soup out of chicken shit by doubling up against Jonathan with a weak ass hand. Ken has chip lead by this point.
Ken all in vs Shelly. Shelly has Ken beat until the river when a 9 fills out his boat. "Sit down!"
Sam makes his move but gets busted out by Jonathan's K's and J's.
I had been steadily bleeding my chips away and finally busted out to Ken.
With Clint, Ken and Jonathan left in the game and blinds at 500/1000, Clint doubles up on Jonathan when he manages to draw full boat on the river, sneaking up and mugging Jonathan's flush.
At 11:45, Jonathan goes out against Ken. Thinking that he'd at least broke even by making 3rd place, he said as much. I corrected him by stating the correct payouts for 9 players -- winner gets $140, 2nd gets $40. That's it. 3rd only breaks even when we have 10 players. Frenchy backed me up. Bitterly disappointed, Jonathan whined that he would have played harder for 2nd place if he'd known. I felt a little bad since it was partially my fault for never having documented the payout schedule, but shit happens.
Down to Ken and Clint, blinds went to 4000/8000, Ken played well and just kept getting the cards he needed all night. He kept whittling Clint down and finally got the win.
posted by Coldkilla @ 1:00 AM
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I'll probably take some additional heat on or about this too. Yes, I was disappointed after “the game”. To set the record straight, I made the comment about breaking even a few times that night once it was down to the last three played it out. Once I was played out, I made the comment that at least I broke even at which time Won corrected me with the rules. That is why I said I would have played harder, maybe I should have said smarter, if I'd known this when I said it earlier on. I was excited to make it into the final three and the idea of breaking even was a sure thing, only to find out otherwise. How could I not be disappointed. I never asked for a handout nor to make an exception to the rules but I do appreciate TZ voicing some support. I would not have accepted any other alternative, as Won said, shit happens and it is just a game. But can't I still be disappointed? Yeah I may have sat out a few games and pissed about it for a bit but in the end it would have only been my loss. I would have gotten off my ass to rejoin the game because after all is said and done, I enjoy playing the game with everyone.
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