Tom Mcevoy - forum
Live Poker player ,Crad room manager in Las vega and "New School" Poker player.
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21 years old , Washington DC.

Poker Tournament

Even experienced tournament players and floorpersons can overlook a hand, especially in a poker game as complicated as Omaha high-low, in which it is very easy to misread your hand. Nobody looks like a rocket scientist when this mistake occurs, and it can cause all sorts of problems.. which the following story illustrates.
I was playing at the final table of an Omaha high-low tournament recently. we were down to three players and Player A, who ultimately finished second to me in the “Best All-Around Player” competition, was my chief opponent. Player A had approximately half the chips, I was in second chip- count position, and Player B was inthird place.

The chips kept seesawing, Player B refused to go broke, and because the limits were very high (we were at the $ 1,000- $2,000 limit with $38,000 in chips in play), I suggested a three-way split. Player A was reluctant to do that, so we continued playing.
Just before the gun went off for the limits to increase to $2,000-$4,000, Player B slid to the distant third position when he lost a pot to Poker A, and reopened negotiations for a split.
This time, I nixed the deal because I believed that I could outlast Player B and get heads up with Player A, and that is exactly what happened.
After we had battled heads up for about 20 minutes with the lead going back and forth, Poker Player A agreed to split first-place money at midnight (which was only 15 minutes away) if we still were fairly equal in chips at that time.
When midnight came, the split went into effect but we continued to play for the points in the Best All-Around Player contest.

Player A had placed seventh in the limit hold’em tournament, and with at least a second-place finish in this event, he would be in the lead for the award. But my high finish also would put me in contention, so on we played for the points, the title, and a beautiful leather jacket that was to be awarded to the best all-around player.
With the limits at $4,000-$8,000, the final (fatal) hand unfolded.
We both were exhausted from playing for more than eight hours and from waging heads-up warfare .

for more than 45 minutes when we put a lot of money into the pot before the flop.
I raised on the button with Q-J-9-8. Because the blinds were so high, Player A defended his big blind with a rather weak hand — 9-9-X-X. The flop came K-10-7, giving me a big open-ended straight draw. Player A’s two small cards gave him a backdoor low possibility.
He checked on the flop, I bet, and he called. Another king came on the turn. I again bet and he called all in. The river poker card was a second 10, with no flush possibility. Turning his cards faceup on the table, Player A commented, “My hand is counterfeited,” (which would have been true if we had been playing hold’em). The dealer pushed the pot to me, as I was holding the high-card queen in my hand.
Seated at the table with us were the third- place finisher, the tournament director, and the dealer, who was experienced in dealing major tournaments.
Gathered around the final table was a large gallery, including an experienced tournament reporter and several world-class players. We all overlooked the final hand.