Recently me and my partner have moved to Gordon which is close to Ballarat and I wanted to see what the poker scene down here in the country was all about so I started my journey heading down to the albert on X pub down in ballarat. For starters it smelt and the bar tender didn’t look the part ( fat, weird looking and had a strange hair cut) and I asked if poker was on tonight he replied “ Yes it is on tonight except its casino night which will have texas holem along with black jack and roulette. Whoever has the most chips at the end of the night wins” I thought that was a great idea I was just looking for a fun night and get some poker skills sharpened at the same time . Except when it was 15mins to go I looked into the pub and there was only 4-5 people in there and I’m not going to go out in town to play with 5 players. So I decided to go down to APL which was just down the road. Luckily I signed in just in time 8.00pm.I first sat down at table 3 and got myself set up and posted the blinds as soon as I sat down. Unlucky me the hole table had monster stacks of 10-20 thousand and I only had 2,500. So I just played my game for awhile and picking my moments. I ended up being break within 30mins of play and with my chip stack at around 4,250 thousand. After break came along I started to bluff a bit at some risky pots and was shoving all in quite a bit and payed off. And before I knew it it was finial table and I gained a juicy stack of 42,500 thousand. Once on final table I just let the short stacks fight it out to survive then I would come into the game and start making some plays. The poker gods then shined down on me and presented me with the Bullets (Aces) and was able to put two short stacks all in and hit a set on the flop so it was bye bye to them and 3 remaining. With the final 3 the 2nd chip leader was becoming a big fan of the all in preflop. He ended up making the 3rd player give in and he won with KQ. So it hit heads up and I was feeling good about playing this guy and straight of he started the all in. I folded a few times then I played his game and shoved back. I ended up calling his all in bet with KcJs and he had Qd9d. The flop came down with Jd5d8d so I was done for. Although I lost it wasn’t the end of the world I was glad to have met some of the local ballarat poker players and found out more about poker in the area. I guess you just cant win them all.
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