The Saga Continues

This will be short. Basically the poker gods continue to frown upon me. I just got knocked out of the Shootout tournament when I was heads up against an aggressive asian kid for 95% of the chips in play on the river...suprise suprise. I never had one big hand the whole time but consistently outplayed my opponents. My table full of fish except this guy Dan who was very tough (regularily plays 300-600 limit and won the BC Open this year). He was knocked out early to a two outer issued by the donk asian.

The Hand:

The asian raised about 70% of the pots on the button and typically overbet making it hard to see flops. I had 11,800 chips and he had the balance of the 25,000. The blinds were 200/400 with an ante. I had hoped to be heads up with the other guy as he was tight and I could small pot him to death, but he was knocked out by the biggest cooler I ever saw. On a limped preflop the flop came 1098 with two clubs one diamond (I had k2 of diamonds by the way). We both checkd to the asian on the button who bet pot. The guy called and the turn was the 6 of diamonds. The action went check check and the river brought the 5 of diamonds. The action was bet raise and allin. The tight guy tabled A10 of diamonds and the asian tabled 97 of diamonds for a straight flush against ace high flush on a backdoor diamond non-paired board.

Anyway, back to the hand, when the asian limped he had bad hands so when he limped on this pot I looked down and found A4. I raised 1,200 more as I must raise at least that much or he would call to see the flop and obviously I don't want to play this kind of hand out of position. Unfortunately, he called. The flop was 1042 with two clubs, which I thought was good. I bet out 2,200 and he quickly raised to 7,000. I thought for about 2 minutes and felt that he was very nervous and thus probably did not have the 10. I hoped he had a small touch where I would have him drawing to 3 to 5 outs. I pushed all in and he shrugged and said he's in too deep and must call. He tables KJ off. Two more clubs come and he wins with the K of clubs. So ridiculas.

To top it off I then go over to Todd's table where he was heads up with another donk who's only move was all-in or fold preflop. Todd had him in chips when I showed up but lost two races in a row to get bounced. AQ to 22 and 99 to AJ. The AQ was gross as the old man limped Todd raised and he pushed back all in with 22. Anyway, both of us outplayed our table, both of us were positioned to make the money round with an opportunity to make some good cash, and of course in typical fashion, both of us got unlucky and make nothing.

FORK U Los Angelas!