“A casual relationship with reality”
Categories: Poker
Last night I played in an online poker tournament. 326 players, which is a pretty big field, as far as that goes. The whole thing lasted like three hours. It was crazy.
I came in seventh. Out of 326. Seventh. Think I'm making this up? See for yourself (I'm Skippy_K). That's nearly a $50 prize right there.
Let me gloat some more here: The tournament paid the top 40 players. That means of players "in the money", I still beat out 33 of them. I won't go into how I should have come in higher because my opponent in the final hand managed to catch his seven on the river, a 3-in-46 (or 1-in-15.3) miracle card. No, that wouldn't be fair because I did catch a couple of miracle cards myself when I was on the bubble, so complaining about how royally I got screwed on that hand (which potentially cost me hundreds in additional winnings, dammnit!) would be disingenuous, and I'm nothing if not... uh... ingenuous.
I think a lot of the reason is that I just finished reading this book, and it's a really good book. So, I must be ready for the World Series of Poker, right?
Nope.
Maybe next year.
posted by Mark Kawakami at June 29, 2005, 01:06 AM // permalink // (3803) Comments