"I am Dejesus!"

Dear Danny,

Alex, aka Dejesus, aka Hypotron, has inexplicably changed my life tonight. Almost. To an extent. I can't sleep, so I figure, let's get a blog post out and make Danny happy. So earlier today I posted a very whacky poker hand. Lemme run it down for those of you who can't decipher all that poker jargin listed below.

It was a single table tournement, which means that 3 place in the money. There were 4 of us left, and the blinds were getting high. I had 2700 in chips, 3rd place had 2500 and 4th had around 1000. Look below for the exact amounts. But basically, I'm in the big blind and get AK of hearts. The short stack UTG open pushes for about 1000, then the button, the big stack reraises around 1700. THEN SB, 200 less than me, CALLS so what do I do? I have a short stack push, ok any range of ace or low pair, I can beat that. Then a big stack reraise, so ok he probably has a pair he wants to isolate, I'll go against that 50/50 shot. Then the other guy calls, not pushes, calls, meaning...he also has a pocket pair? Hopefully not Kings, so I repushraiseshove...then both calls. Everything is revealed to - UTG K5, Button 44, SB JJ me AK. So basically, I was right. I guess. I had a 30% chance to win out. Flop comes K45, and the rest is history...I came in second. The set of 4s, 15% chance to win, won out and won 1st. So I came in 2nd. Not bad, right?

So I ask Alex what I should have done. And then the world exploded. He didn't know. Alex by the way is basically a professional poker player. He does this everyday. And it bogged him for a while, and basically, it's such a unique and weird position, no one really knows what to do.

Read about it here - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=163573

Anyway, the sheer concept of being a part of a hand that's completely mysterious, now that's something weird. It's like I saw a UFO or I went on this amazing trip where I was kidnapped by natives and somehow escaped. Like I was part of something bigger than I was. It might just turn out to be a poker story, and things like this happen every day...but it doesn't feel like that. At least not now. So in the future, this is going to be my AK experience. My big blind Ace King story. Let it be known.