The Best Hand

The qualifier for the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event in Cardiff ended for me within minutes yesterday as I crashed out holding the premier hole cards.

The blinds were 10/20 in the first level of the tournament and I was dealt a pair of aces. I raised them to three hundred and twenty and got two callers. The flop had a pair of sixes so I decided to go all-in to take what was in the pot there and then.

One fold and one call later and my evening was over.

The rival had called my raise with a jack and a six. He hit trips with the pair on the board.

I know it may sound bitter of me but why would anyone with a good poker mind call a raise with those cards? Sure, he was winning after the flop but preflop when I made that raise a few alarm bells shold hae gone off and he should have folded.

I wouldm't have played that hand any other way. I am sure that nine times out of ten I would have taken that hand down. Instead, I lost in the one tournament that I really wanted to make an impact in. I saw the aces and took my chance.

There's always next year.