My first live tourney

I entered the $100+$20 buy in tourney on Saturday September 11 of the Heavenly Hold Em Tournament at the Commerce Casino.

Let me first say that I love playing live. Having the cards in hand, messing with the chips, seeing the flop of actual cards....I love it all.

Except. When. People. Play. Stupid. And. Get. Lucky!

It's not that I have any problem with someone playing the way they want to and getting lucky against all odds...everyone plays their own style for their own reasons. What's different that I'm not quite able to handle yet is when someone plays so unbelievably badly and gets lucky online, I can curse, stand up, throw my hands up in the air, ask to noone in particular, "How in the hell can someone that plays that badly get so doggone lucky?!"

Let's just say that kind of reaction would be....not appreciated during a live game.

When my aces get cracked by his 4 5 offsuit, which he had to call a 3 bet before the flop to play, all I could think to do when he turned over his cards was to show my aces and say "I guess that makes these no good." The whole table saw what happened, and I did appreciate the sympathy, but 4 5 offsuit?! In second position?! After a 3 bet?!?! And you chased a straight to hit on the river?!

The only thing that made that worse was that bad/lucky player kept playing badly, except now he wasn't getting lucky, so I watched with some despair as all of what I considered "my" chips were badly played and given to all the other players at the table....not a single one came back to me. The only joy I got out of the situation was watching Mr. Bad/Lucky get bounced from the tourney before I did. He took about 40% of my stack on that lame play and couldn't even last longer than I did....and I didn't last very long, either.

Well, there's always next time. Besides my very unlucky day that day, I still had a great time. Heck, I got to play poker live.