Recap of the Banea Invitational 5/14/2005

I played in the Banea Invitational Saturday, if you continue to read this blog you will hear a lot about the Banea's. They are the people who have helped my poker game the most the past few years, and I am really good friends with them. I play a house game there with them several times a week, we keep a running points system for the player of the year race. Going into this tournament I was the top ranked non-family member point wise. The person right behind me was fairly close I had recently passed him in points and he was playing in the tournament so I wanted to make sure I put on my "A" game.

I started out well, couldn't accumulate chips the table was tough everyone who had any type of hand raised 5 - 8 times the big blind and you can't call those type of raises with garbage. I was hanging in there, and 2 entire tables went out, so I felt good. The rest of the tables were condensed to fill them up, and a new guy who was a bit drunk came to our table. Very first hand I am small blind he is big blind everyone folds I call, he raises 3 times the big blind. I have K 10 in my hand and I decided to call, the flop comes 3C KH 2C. I decide to teach this fool a lesson and I go all in he calls and flips over 5C 5H. He gets two running clubs to eliminate me and make a one card flush, then he proceeds to apologize for the rest of the night. Bad Beats happen, but the funny thing is he put a bad beat on another player and he just folded the rest of the night and he won the tournament with another bad beat. The worse part about it is, he got upset with the tournament director for racing off his chips he was yelling, "what are you doing with my chips?". Then he didn't understand the blinds and antes in heads up play, this proves you can get lucky and win a tournament.

Well after the main tournament was over they had a turbo tournament, which I won I felt kind of bad because I put a bad beat on a guy he was short stacked and I was chip leader he went all in for $925, I was big blind at $800.00 so I called the $125 he flips over A8 and I flip over my K9 the flop comes 9 K 9 to make my full house and eliminate him. But at the end like most tournaments its a coin flip, I won and regained the non-Banea point lead.