Morning Shootout ( Poker That Is)

          Well howdy folks!  Played in the $25 single table no limit texas hold’em shootout this morning.

           It was the usual poker room crowd with ten players at my table.  I have played poker with them all before and pretty much know how they all play.  Got several good hands right off the bat that went no where leaving me with about half the starting stack. With the blinds rising every ten minutes and short on chips I needed a good situation to get all in.

          I’m in the big blind with jack, four off suit and four people limp in. I check and see a beautiful flop of jack, four, six of mixed suits. The small blind and I check ( I’m hoping someone has a jack) and a middle position limper bets out about quarter the pot. One person calls and when it gets to me I raise. I didn’t go all in for I didn’t want to scare him out of the pot with the over bet but definitely wanted to commit him to the pot and get the other caller to fold which happened just like clockwork. the turn was a meaningless card so i go all in (which was only about half the pot) and get called by jack, queen off suit. The river was a blank. I had him covered in chips so out he went muttering.

         I proceeded to knock several more people out and become the chip leader. It got down to heads up play with me having about a three to one advantage in chips. I double him up then on the second hand as I miss my open ended straight draw against his top pair no kicker. It goes back and fourth for several hands until he suggests that we chop the pot sixty/forty in my favor (I only have about three more chips then him at this time). With the blinds extremely high and not much cash in my pocket I take the deal and pocket $150 for my forty five minutes of “work”.

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