Well, since my first huge win at The Orleans I pushed my luck and hit a daily at Hollywood Park the following Tuesday.  I have done a few tourneys there and cash games, but not much luck.  I played the 11:30 am NLH tourney with rebuys.  I never hit the felt, so I was in a total of $70.  I did the add-on for insurance before the break.  I can honestly say I was pulling off some of the biggest bluffs of my life there.  I played super hyper aggressive.  The man to my right was weak, so weak I made him cry…lol.  The man to my left said to me that he had never seen such an aggressive woman player at Hollywood Park before and loved my performance.  I had a deal with this cowboy that if we made it to the final table that we would chop at the end, but play it out for 10% juice.

I wish this tourney was a bounty.  I must have knocked out at least a dozen or so people.  I was on fire.  When I got to the final two tables, I later found out that the chip leader was the number one ranked player at HP.  He had me outchipped 2.5 to 1.  Within the first 15 minutes, I had about 90% of his stack in two hands.  First hand, I had Q 9 off.  I raised, he reraised, I called.  I think the blinds were 2,000 and 4,000.  I hit my nine on the flop with rag, rag.  I bet out around $12,000.  He reraised me another $16,000.  I called all in.  I looked away and didn’t give him any information.  I think that he had A K, but didn’t hit it.  I think he had me on a set of 9’s.  He went in the tank for a good 5 minutes before he finally in disgust mucked.

The next hand I had pocket Q’s.  I raised it up and he called.  I hit a set on the flop.  I called all in since at this time he only had about $6000 left.  He threw his cards in the muck with disgust again and a 3 flipped up, so I am guessing he didn’t hit his 3’s.  Later he lost his all his chips in the battle of the blinds. 

Now on this table was a very short stack and due to my aggression and him hitting some killer cards, I ended up heads up with him.  It should have never been this man, but I made a 3 huge mistakes.  One, when he went all in, me and another player called him, I should have just checked it down, but I got greedy and wanted a side pot and the other player folded.  Now the other player would have won and the short stack would have been out.  He tripled up instead.  Second huge mistake, he went all in and I had pocket jacks and called and he turned over kings.  He doubled up again.  Now this man is equal to Mike the Mouth but from Russia.  He was going on and on…feeling like a donkey I told him to sit down and shut up…which he did. 

Now for the 3rd and this is a doozey.  I get heads up with this man and he offers me a chop.  He had about $75,000 more in chips then me.  Now in hind site, yes I should have taken the chop, but I didn’t.  This guy had pissed me off and I was still on a high from The Orleans that I thought I could take him down.  I was soo tired.  I should have taken the offer, but I have never chopped before, and with so many people telling me I should take it I freaked out and said no.  So, about 5 hands later instead of taking $1800 home, I only took $1400 home.  Still a nice win, but next time my dumb butt will take a chop.

Now with these 2 great wins within days of each other, my dlh sends me to Vegas to grind it out.  Tune in next time for great tales from The Venetian.

Until then….Always take the chop…it’s all about the equity!!

Melissa