Get Nothing For Free In This Game!

So an evening of Poker looked on the cards.... sorry pardon the cheap pun..... so I thought I'd enter the $1000 freeroll and the $20 rebuy which had $3000 guaranteed prize fund.

To be honest I didn't start well in either tournie and was out first of the $20 rebuy. I made the break after an hour, with only 1500 chips and rejected the offer to add on..... I was miles behind and on the verge of going out but managed to double up through AQo being called by someone with ace-rag. So now with just under 3000 I was UTG with A9s and called.... the dealer comes in with a big raise and I made the mistake of calling only to see his AQ turn over. Neither of us hit anything and so I was out. Bit of a crap performance as I always find that I need to get off to a good start by winning the first hand I play in.

In the freeroll I got KK early on and so put all my chips in the middle only to see 4 people call the all-in...... what a joke..... I know it's only a freeroll but even so why don't people play properly? When the cards went over I felt good as JJ was the only decent hand out there. No one hit anything until the river when another J hits the board and he took the pot leaving me with 480 chips!

Then my fortunes changed and I got a few hands with only single callers and managed to double up a few times. On 5500 I managed to get called by bcliche and won that to get to over 11k chips.

By this time Claire was eager to get to ASDA and Bethany was sitting over my shoulder watching me play. I picked up A9s on the button and made a raise which got called by one other and the flop gave me two pair. I checked and the other guy slammed his chips in and I brought home that pot..... didn't even need the second pair as he'd called with A6o? Not a very clever move.

So with approx 24k chips and down to the last 270 out of 5500 I knew it would be my turn when QQ came and the pot had already been raised and called when it came round to me. I called the first guy all-in as he didn't have many left and the 2nd guy called..... The flop came all low cards so I knew I must be ahead. I put in a pot sized bet which got called immediately and then the turn came up low too to give 3 hearts on the board. With still an over pair to the board I fired in the rest of my chips which was still about 8k. The other guy thought for a bit then called and turned over KJo with the king of hearts. Mr all-in turns over two aces but I'm still happy as currently I have still doubled through because the other guy is way behind. Unfortunately for me another heart arrives on the river and the Mr KJ win our side pot and Mr Aces wins the rest.

I've heard loads of comments on the laddies forum about the RNG (random number generator) being a bit biased toward the underdog but it does come up so often that there must be something to it...... Anyway I got knocked out and then had to walk round ASDA's instead... :-(