On the weekend I headed down the coast to celebrate a friend from APL's 30th birthday. There was about 15 of us so I organised two bedroom apartments at the new Meriton property in Broadbeach ... just across the road from Jupiters. We had dinner at the casino's chinese restaurant Zen and then a few headed to the pub while a few of us headed to the tables.
The wait-list for the cheap poker tables was around 3 hours and after a bottle of wine or two I didn't really want to be playing for a lot of money while a little pissy. So instead, much to the shock of my friend's from poker, I played blackjack ... or to be precise a hybrid game called Jupiters 21. A couple of the girls also played having never played blackjack before and thoroughly enjoyed it. I ended up playing for around 4 or 5 hours and finished just in front.
The next day after breakfast, we drove back to Brisbane and straight to Bulimba just in time for the afternoon game. I didn't spend, but made it on to the final table (of about 25 players).
Blinds were quite high and I wasn't seeing cards. With the blinds at $2000/$4000 and still 7 players left on the table and I was under the gun. Everyone starts pointing out my weak position and that I'll have to push with any picture card so I look down at my cards and see my "lucky hand", jack three suited. I think for a minute and then say sure, I call/I'm all-in. I get an immediate caller to my right and then someone isolates on the other side and everyone else folds. He turns over ace-queen off so I don't mind my chance in the race. He hits the ace, but unfortunately for him its the ace of diamonds and with another diamond on the flop one more on the turn gives me the flush. Jack-three comes through for me again!! I ended up finishing 3rd.
Monday night I played at the Broadway for my first time this season. I was planning on going to the gym but didn't feel like it so I thought I'd play some cards. I knew it was a fairly dangerous group of players when I sat down, I saw a few flops early but hit nothing. I realised at the break that I hadn't won a hand, hadn't pre-flop raised and hadn't bet or even called once a flop had come. It wasn't until the blinds were at $200/$400 that I finally got a hand. Someone called in front of me, I have pocket queens, think about how much to raise but since I've only got around 2500 by this stage, I push all-in. Insta-call from a short-stack next to me, big blind folds and then the caller before me umms and ahhs and then lays down his ace - 7 suited. Short-stack turns over queen-jack suited and I take down the pot. I win a large pot just before the final table that sees me well placed relative to the blinds. I draw small-blind on the final table and proceed to again see no cards and I end up coming 5th. Not too bad an effort out of around 35 players.
(Me in the middle standing, with the APL crew at Zen Restaurant)
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