CHARITY POKER EVENT

I played in a charity Poker tournament last night at 3rd Base Sports bar on 6th and Mopac last night. 1st place was a seat at the WSOP next year for one of the $1000.00 buy in no limit tourneys. 2nd place was a buy in to Howard Lederers BBQ charity tournament at the Golden Nugget on Fourth of July weekend. About 90 people showed up and there were around 150 Re-buys. I never did a re-buy though I did 2 ad-ons. I played good poker but was dealt awful cards. I finally caught pocket Aces and went all in and had 3 people call and I won that race and had a good pile. I was then moved to another table and was next to a little old lady who had a middle size stack. By this time we are down to two tables and have 18 people left. I was in the small blind and caught pocket Queens. It had been folded to me so I raised it 3x and the little old lady called. Flop came Q-5-2 rainbow. I go all in and she calls. She turns over a 10-5 of spades. The two was a spade and the turn was a spade and river was another spade and took the pot crippling me to now about 8 Big blinds. I politely asked her....when I raised preflop why did you call with a 10-5? She shrugged her shoulders and said "They were suited". I fought my way to 13th and won a FullTilt mouse pad. On a brighter note, the charity was for helping veterans who suffer from PTSD and we raised $11,000.00 for them so that made me very happy.