Lately, I have noticed that spades and clubs look alot alike. Hearts and diamonds, no problem. But a quick glance at the board just won’t cut it when the cards have black splotches on them anymore (that’s what spades and clubs are now, splotches). I need glasses.
Or maybe it’s more than that, because my latest misstep really can’t be blamed on poor vision. Saturday evening I played in one of the Full Tilt Poker freeroll WSOP qualifying tourneys. With 1800 players, I was in 9th place late in the tourney (less than 175 players remaining). All I had to do was make the top 36 to make it to the next qualifier.
Between hands I looked up exactly when that next qualifying tourney was, and I was disappointed to find out that I would be on the road driving back from business in New Orleans when that tourney was scheduled the next weekend. Darn! At that point, I didn’t give up, but I have to say I wasn’t too concerned anymore about making the cutoff (top 36), so I shifted gears and decided to accumulate chips.
In front of me, another player with a big stack (bigger than mine) who had been raising all in way too often with Ace-x raised all in again, so my pocket fives looked good, and I call. I was right, she had Ace 9 offsuit. My fives stayed good until she hit her ace on the river, and I am out after besting about 1790 other players for a few hours. I would not have made that move with pocket fives at this point in the tourney if I wanted to maintain my good chance of making top 36 and advancing. But, I can’t play the next tourney anyway, right?
Well, not exactly. The problem is that I had misread the schedule for the next qualifier, and I wasn’t going to be traveling when it was scheduled after all. In fact, I was going to be parked in a New Orleans hotel room that particular evening, with all the time in the world available to me to play in the next level qualifier tourney, with a chance at $12,000 WSOP package, for FREE.
So, if that goof wasn’t due to poor vision, to what can I attribute it? What am I st..st..st..stupid or something? Glasses don’t fix that, do they?
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