A big night at the Casino!

So, after that huge laydown of QQ blogged about two posts down, I guess it was time for my comeuppance. And, sure enough, I found it this very evening. A big Canadian Poker Tour event was held in Regina this weekend and a few pros had shown up, I guess. One of them, Mark Karam, decided to sit at our tiny little $1/$2 no limit table for a while - I'm not sure why - maybe just to amuse the rest of us fish that were there.

Well, after a couple hours at the table, I ended up with 84 in the big blind and was unraised. I checked. Flop came 4 4 10 and I'm ecstatic. Mark bets $20, I call and he looks at me really funny. I got a weird feeling that he was playing a 4 also - but was hoping he had a 1o. Turn came A - exactly what I wanted. He checked, I bet $50 and he called in a blink of an eye. Now I'm a bit worried. I began seeing visions of A4 in Mark's hand. River came 5. He checked, I thot for a long time, pushed all in (for about another $120) and Mark quickly called and flipped over 6 4. My eight was live and I stole about $200 from Mark. I have got to learn to stop shaking at the table, however, because I could hardly stack my chips after that. That was a pretty cool moment - and thot I have to blog about that big win after whining about that tough loss earlier.