No-Limit Action at Binion's Horseshoe! - 11/27/04
Everyone who plays poker knows that the poker captial of the world is Binion's Horseshoe in downtown
Las Vegas. The World Series of Poker is held here every year and just about every semi-serious player
wants to draw down a few hands at this famous casino. I decided it was about time to enter the no-limit
Texas Hold 'em tournament and test my playing skills.
I managed to take a pretty quick chip lead and was able to grow my $1,500 into about $10,000 within the
first three rounds. There were 160 players in the tournament, so I knew that it was going to take some
time to eliminate most of the crowd. About four hours later, I still had a great chip lead with about 40
players left in the room.
I had played a pretty tight game until I bluffed a pot with ten/six unsuited. The flop came up another
ten with rags and the action came down to just me and my neighbor. I could see that he was on a diamond
flush draw and I put him all-in on the hand. He indeed was on a flush draw and I had the hand won with the
pair of tens until fifth street. Yup, a diamond showed up and my stack was drained down to a few thousand
dollars.
I tried to double up a few times, but finally was eliminated in position 35 of 160. Not bad in my mind, but
I really wanted to make that final table and take the big prize!
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