As my flight home nears I get a chance to play in the weekly Monday tournament at the Star City casino. There are 102 runners paying $200 each.
Unfortunately the structure is a bit rubbish. We get only 3000 chips with 25 minute levels. Level 1 is 25/50 then 50/100 ; 75/150.
I do OK on level 1 getting paid some chips with AJ hitting a Jxx board and my AA getting one call and a flop call too. Unfortunately I get couple of big draws which I can pay for so by the time we are nearing the end of Level 2 I have just over what I started with - 3,300 when I pick up KJ suited hearts UTG. We are in a limpers paradise so we have 5 to a flop with the pot 500.
Flop is AJJ with 2 clubs so I bet 400 and only the button calls. Turn is 3c and I bet 900 into the 1300 pot. He min raises and I suppose at this point I should have realised he had taken the incorrect pot odds on the flop, but given what I had seen so far he could easily have Ax or Jx. I am pretty sure he would have raised with AJ on the button, the only hand that crushes me. I move all-in and he calls showing K4 of clubs for the flush. I don't hit my full house so I am out.
I think to go deep in this tournament requires rather too much luck so an early gamble seemed justfied.
Here ends my Aussie adventure....
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