Last night me and the guys decided to hold an impromptu tournament, even though Pete and I had already decided not to play. What can I say, we're junkies. It began with seven guys- me, Pete, and a bunch of guys from my hall. Early on I played a couple pots and took most of them after backing up my preflop raise with a bet on the flop. We began the tournament with 100 in chips, and at this point I was up to about 160, which was good for second in chips, behind Jesse, who had taken a few big pots. Anyway, Jesse comes in raising from first position for only 6 dollars, a pretty weak raise, and I'd seen him raise with dumb cards before. So I look down and see ace queen off, and I reraise him 15. Alex behind me calls, and so does Jesse. The flop comes ace king 4, all hearts. I had the queen of hearts in my hand, so I had top pair, top kicker, and the nut flush draw, and even a backdoor straight draw. I bet out 15, Alex folded, and Jesse raised me 15. I reraised all-in for another 107. He called after thinking for about 2 seconds and flipped over king jack of spades. Huh? "I didn't think you had anything," he said. Obviously my preflop reraise, bet and all-in reraise on the flop was not noticed by him. This left him with 4 outs against me- his two kings and the jack of diamonds and clubs, as the heart would give me my flush. He was basically on an inside straight draw which could get beaten even if it hit. The turn was... you guessed it, the jack of clubs, giving him two pair, but I still had a ton of outs. Two more aces in the deck would give me trips, 3 queens would give me a superior two pair, 4 tens in the deck would give me a straight, and the remaining 8 hearts would give me a flush. Seventeen outs going into the river isn't so bad, and remember, this was worst case scenario. I saw the river come off- it was a heart, giving me the nut flush. Right as I started to pump my fist, I saw that it was the jack of hearts, giving Jesse a full house. This knocked me out of the tournament and gave him a massive chip lead, and he ended up winning the tournament, while Pete took second. Once again, idiocy prevails.

Quote of the day- "If there wasn't luck involved, I guess I'd just win them all."- Phil Hellmuth

Terrence's bankroll-$150-5=$145