Re-Cap from WSOP Main Event
I was extremely dissappointed with my finish since I really fought hard to get my stack up to around 65,000. Throughout the tournament, the cards were never real good to me, I struggled for every 1000 that I got. I had pocket aces only once with no action and pocket kings once with small action.
Well, here is a re-cap of my last hand. I was middle position, blinds were 600/1200 with a 200 ante. The pot was raised to 2400 and then again re-raised to 6000 to my right. I had about 56,000 at the time. I thought at this time a call was correct. There was another one in late position who also called. There was 4 way action in the pot and about 26K in chips. The flop came Ace of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, Six of Spades. I thought it was a great flop for my Ace-King. First position checks, the person to my right makes it 10,000. I thought for a while and figured it was either all in to keep the flush guy from drawing or fold. Well obviously I did not fold and moved in with all of my chips. The button folds, the next guy went into the think tank for about 5 minutes and finally folded. It thought at this time, the guy to my right would probably lay it down, but instead he said "I have to call this even though I hate to" . Those were words I did not want to hear since now we were either tied or just he had me crushed. He also said "show me your pocket aces". I knew I was beat then as he then turned over pocket queens to complete his set. The turn comes a King to give me the top two pair and the river was a Four of Hearts. The other guy said he would have made the flush! It was over for me as he had me covered.
Now, my Monday morning quarterbacking of my hand. In retrospect I would and should have folded pre-flop. I had to call the raise and re-raise as a strong hand maybe Aces or Kings. After I saw the flop I could have flat called the 10,000 but even then, I would have been all in after the turn card since I had top tow pair. So for those who say to flat call, the turn would have had all of us in!!
Again thanks for watching and I will post here as the tourneys progress. My next one is planned for the LA Legend of Poker in August. Keep in touch!