Losing the biggest pot you have ever played is never fun, but losing it to 7-2 stings even more.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to me during my three-day trip to Firekeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek during the Mid-States Poker Tour .
Here’s a recap of how that happened, and my overall weekend at the record-breaking event . Thursday evening turns into Friday morning and brings a tough loss
I started off my trip by arriving to the casino around 4 p.m. on Thursday with the plan to check into my hotel room then jump straight into the cash games. With the tournament drawing so many players I was concerned the cash games might not start until later, but fortunately I was able to get a seat in a cash game just before 5:30 p.m.
The game I played was $2/$5 no-limit hold ’em . The max buy-in for this game starts at $1,000, then after the first hand, the max buy-in increases to the biggest stack at the table. So, if someone on the table has $2,000, you can buy-in for up to $2,000. I buy-in to the game initially for $1,000. After losing a few smaller pots I add-on another $300, so I’m into the game for $1,300.
I start to pickup some momentum over the next 10 hours and run my stack up to as high as $3,000 . As I’m sitting on a stack of $2,700, I played the biggest pot of my life . How the 7-2 got me
The hand starts when I look down at pocket kings on the button. The second-best starting hand in no-limit hold ’em .
The action in front of me sees a player call for $5, and then the player in the cutoff raise to $25. This player has sat down within the last 10 minutes. I’ve never played with them before, but they have a stack of roughly $2,000 and, from what I gather from others at the table, a reputation for being lots of action. Information like this can be so important to try and pickup on, especially when […]
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