Poker Drama
I'm behind in my posting and I'm going to have to do better to keep it current. Recently Gold Strike held a summer tournament. I opted to play a mixed event rather than the Ladies event. I've been asked dozens of times whey I didn't play in the Ladies event so I'll elaborate here. First, I have to be honest and admit that I was a bit miffed when I made my travel plans to Vegas to coincide with the Nevada State Ladies Championship only to arrive in Vegas to find out the event had been cancelled. Second, there is a lot of drama that in the past has gone along with the Ladies tournaments. Frankly, I have enough drama in my personal life. I partly play poker to escape the drama so I certainly don't want to be thrown into the midst of even more drama. I made the same comment during a cash game the day after the Ladies event and I offended a lady at my table from Oklahoma who played the Ladies event. She huffed and stormed off a couple of hands later saying she couldn't take all the drama at our table. Point made. A lot of the ladies take poker much too personally. During a ladies tournament there are tears and confrontations.
For example, when I played the Ladies Tournament at the Grand as part of the WSOP Circuit event, I was moved to a table with a very aggressive player. She had quite a few chips but fortunately I had much more because I had knocked bout about 7 or 8 players before I was moved to her table. This player raised preflop every hand, even when out of position and continued to raise throughout the hand. Hand after hand she played this way and she was controlling the table. Well, either she was the luckiest player I've ever seen or just a plain ole table bully but my thoughts were she was just very aggressive and she couldn't be getting that many good hands. Unfortunately, I was getting garbage and had nothing that I could call her on. Finally I got a playable hand, the mother of all preflop hands, two black Aces. She was to my right and acted before I and as always she raised preflop 5 times the blind, I reraised enough so that if she called, she would have very few chips left thinking she would either go all in or fold. My thought was if I went all in she wouldn't call and she was aggressive enough that I thought my reraise would seem odd to her and make her go all in. The other two players folded, however, she only called. The flop came Ad Kh Ah rainbow. I thought for sure she would check but she immediately fired out all her chips. I paused for a moment, partly in disbelief as to how quickly she acted and then said call. She jumped out of her chair, pulled out her Ipod ear buds and asked me how could I call her? DUH? How could I not? The dealer asked her to turn up her cards and she revealed, Jc 10s unsuited then I turned over my cards to reveal As Ac. She had a straight draw but I had flopped four Aces. She was steaming. She glared at me and after she was knocked out continued to stand beside me and bless me out because I called her large raise preflop. She continued to ask, how could you reraise my raise before the flop? I bet enough you should have folded, just ranting and raving. I know pocket Aces don't always win, nothing does, but I was not about to fold pocket Aces preflop no matter what the raise. Anyway, the floor had to come and ask her to leave the tournament area. Five minutes later we had a break and she was waiting for me at the entrance to the Ladies room and started at it again.
After break in the same tournament, I'm on the button and in the 10 seat and I'm dealt As Qs. There are 3 callers in the pot before it comes around to me plus the blinds. I make a large raise and the player to my left in the one seat calls. Everyone else folds. The flop comes Ac Qc 7s. The other player makes a large over bet. I come in and reraise her. She thinks for what seems like eternity. Another player calls time (I would never call time on a player, especially a hand in which I was not involved). She folded then leaned across the dealer and said with claws revealed and with a glaring challenging look, "I was on a straight draw" and I replied in true southern smart ass fashion, "well, bless your heart, I was on a full house draw". She then replied, “a full house draw? There's no such thing". She paused and asked you had trip sevens? I just glared. She then told me she had 8 9 hearts and that if a 10 and a Jack had come out she'd have had Q high straight. I never told her what I had, she didn't pay to see it and had she called my re-raise, she just might have drawn the cards she needed but I made it so expensive for her to call she opted to lay her cards down.
Shortly thereafter a player at another table dressed in a pale pink shirt ran through the tournament area after getting knocked out crying hysterically. Although the men may feel like doing these things, I've yet to witness such actions from them, so I prefer to play with the boys. I'm a middle child and the only one who could be called "sister" so maybe that's another reason why I prefer playing with the boys. I'm not sure because my experience as a child was that the boys didn't play fair. They cheated, lied and beat the living daylights out of you anytime they halfway got a chance but confront you or cry, never!
For example, when I played the Ladies Tournament at the Grand as part of the WSOP Circuit event, I was moved to a table with a very aggressive player. She had quite a few chips but fortunately I had much more because I had knocked bout about 7 or 8 players before I was moved to her table. This player raised preflop every hand, even when out of position and continued to raise throughout the hand. Hand after hand she played this way and she was controlling the table. Well, either she was the luckiest player I've ever seen or just a plain ole table bully but my thoughts were she was just very aggressive and she couldn't be getting that many good hands. Unfortunately, I was getting garbage and had nothing that I could call her on. Finally I got a playable hand, the mother of all preflop hands, two black Aces. She was to my right and acted before I and as always she raised preflop 5 times the blind, I reraised enough so that if she called, she would have very few chips left thinking she would either go all in or fold. My thought was if I went all in she wouldn't call and she was aggressive enough that I thought my reraise would seem odd to her and make her go all in. The other two players folded, however, she only called. The flop came Ad Kh Ah rainbow. I thought for sure she would check but she immediately fired out all her chips. I paused for a moment, partly in disbelief as to how quickly she acted and then said call. She jumped out of her chair, pulled out her Ipod ear buds and asked me how could I call her? DUH? How could I not? The dealer asked her to turn up her cards and she revealed, Jc 10s unsuited then I turned over my cards to reveal As Ac. She had a straight draw but I had flopped four Aces. She was steaming. She glared at me and after she was knocked out continued to stand beside me and bless me out because I called her large raise preflop. She continued to ask, how could you reraise my raise before the flop? I bet enough you should have folded, just ranting and raving. I know pocket Aces don't always win, nothing does, but I was not about to fold pocket Aces preflop no matter what the raise. Anyway, the floor had to come and ask her to leave the tournament area. Five minutes later we had a break and she was waiting for me at the entrance to the Ladies room and started at it again.
After break in the same tournament, I'm on the button and in the 10 seat and I'm dealt As Qs. There are 3 callers in the pot before it comes around to me plus the blinds. I make a large raise and the player to my left in the one seat calls. Everyone else folds. The flop comes Ac Qc 7s. The other player makes a large over bet. I come in and reraise her. She thinks for what seems like eternity. Another player calls time (I would never call time on a player, especially a hand in which I was not involved). She folded then leaned across the dealer and said with claws revealed and with a glaring challenging look, "I was on a straight draw" and I replied in true southern smart ass fashion, "well, bless your heart, I was on a full house draw". She then replied, “a full house draw? There's no such thing". She paused and asked you had trip sevens? I just glared. She then told me she had 8 9 hearts and that if a 10 and a Jack had come out she'd have had Q high straight. I never told her what I had, she didn't pay to see it and had she called my re-raise, she just might have drawn the cards she needed but I made it so expensive for her to call she opted to lay her cards down.
Shortly thereafter a player at another table dressed in a pale pink shirt ran through the tournament area after getting knocked out crying hysterically. Although the men may feel like doing these things, I've yet to witness such actions from them, so I prefer to play with the boys. I'm a middle child and the only one who could be called "sister" so maybe that's another reason why I prefer playing with the boys. I'm not sure because my experience as a child was that the boys didn't play fair. They cheated, lied and beat the living daylights out of you anytime they halfway got a chance but confront you or cry, never!
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