"Sailing and Poker"

It has been a little while since I updated this humble blog. This past Sunday I had the pleasure of crewing in a regatta. There were only three of us, so I actually had to do some work. Other than a less than ideal start we had a pretty good race. We did have a little luck in that the fastest boat made a navigation error. The boat ended up correcting course, but the mistake did cost them. They had to spot us 33 seconds per mile so when the math was completed we won by just 9 seconds. Man it was fun! Sailing across the water is so peaceful. I must say the captain did one hell of a job to keep us in the race. There was another San Juan 7.7 that we constantly changing positions with. I think we ended up beating them by only 28 seconds.

I could go on about sailing, but the unique thing is that they hosted a freeroll NL holdem tournament after the regatta. I learned an interesting lesson during this tournament. Many of the players had never played NL Holdem before. I tried playing my normal game and I really should have shifted gears and been the aggressor. I ended up going all-in with pocket tens. I was called by A7o and of course an ace hit on the river. People who have never played in a NL holdem tournament can be dangerous in that they do not have a clue as to what they are doing. If I am in this situation again I am going all-in early and often.

Somehow I managed to sweet talk my lovely wife into letting me play poker Monday night. It was an interesting tournament. There was one new player that I could not get a read on. There is one hand I wish I would have played differently. I truly should have used Slansky's advice on this hand. I had AK of spades. They player to my right raised it to $4K prior to the flop. That was a quarter of his chips. I think I should have raised him all-in and taken my chances. Unfortunately I folded. He showed an ace, but I do not think he had a strong kicker. He may have called my all-in, but hind sight tells me it would have been worth the chance.

I ended up going all-in with KdQd and got walloped by a set of two's. I finished in 5th place. It may have been worth it to play big slick early and take a shot at the new guy. it turns out that he was a loose aggressive player. At one point he went all-in with T5o and of course ran into a big hand.

I am not sure when I will play poker again, but I do know I am going sailing on Sunday.

Peace!