This past weekend I was at the State Bowling Tournament in Green Bay. Luckily, with the tournament being held in Green Bay, it's not so far to travel to get to Oneida's Mason Street Casino, which is where the poker room is in Green Bay. I arrived early Friday afternoon with the intention of sitting down for about a 3-4 hour session, then take a couple hour break back at the hotel, and then come back for a longer session in the evening. My session started on a downturn after I had my trip 10's get hammered by a flush in a large pot early, and then shortly after that got hit in a decent pot again when I flopped two pair (AK) on a single-suit board, only to get it all in with someone who had a lower two pair (A8), and then they hit their kicker (the 8) for the full house after we got it all in on the flop.
I started to make a comeback at the $1/$3 table, and had just about doubled up my rebuy when I was dealt a pair of Kings in late position. The player in the Under-the-Gun seat limped in to the pot, the player next to him had limped, one more player between that position and myself limped in to the pot, so when I saw KK I popped it up. I tried to pick an amount that would get one of the prior limpers to call, but not all of them, so I bet $25. The player that was under the gun was a very active player and I expected him to call with just about anything here. Well, he folds. The next player, who had been playing very well after the flop, decides to now raise to $95. That killed the other action and it was now back on me. Usually, when a player limps and then reraises from early position they have a VERY strong hand. It's actually not that unusual to see pocket Aces in that situation. The one thing I thought was odd here, though, was the fact that someone else had already limped. Usually when this limp-reraise play is made there is no other action behind you. The idea is to induce a raise from someone else and then trap that raise in the pot with your reraise. With the other limp in front of him I really didn't put him on Aces, but I was pretty sure he must have something big to try and pull this play. I had about $375 in front of me when the hand began, so if I were to reraise I would probably make it about $250 to go. If I'm putting in $250 of my $375, the rest is going in on the flop regardless of what hits the board, so I might as well bet the whole thing, right? The only thing I didn't want to hear was the automatic "I call". So, after I declared myself "All In!" (that's for you Stretch and Buck) I was very happy to hear absolutely nothing out of my opponent, as that meant he didn't have Aces. Well, at that moment, another table started going beserk about something. It turns out that over at the $3/$6 Limit table someone had lost with quad Jacks to a King-high straight flush. The Oneida Poker Room has a Bad Beat Jackpot, and it turns out that it hit because in order to qualify you have to lose with quads. The jackpot was at just over $67,000. I couldn't get up and personally check it out though as I was still involved in a hand at the moment. My opponent thought and thought and finally called. Now, at the cash game you don't need to show, but I don't play that way so I turned over the Kings, and he showed his Queens. My Kings held up and I won a very nice pot.
What I couldn't figure out, though, was why the whole room was going nuts over the bad beat. Everyone was high-fiving each other. I finally asked what was up, and the player on my left informed me that a portion of the jackpot goes to the players in the room. Apparently, Oneida splits the jackpot like this: 40% goes to the loser of the hand, 20% goes to the winner of the hand, 20% is split among the other players at the table dealt in to the hand, and 20% is split amongst the rest of the poker players in the room that had been dealt a hand at the time it happened. At every other casino poker room I've been to with a Bad Beat Jackpot, the split is usually 50% to the loser, 25% to the winner, 20% to the rest of the table, and 5% to reseed the Jackpot. As it turned out, each player in the room that wasn't at the table where the bad beat occurred received $308. Not bad for just being in the room at the time! It took about two hours to process paying out the Jackpot. Everyone, and I mean everyone, got paid in chips, so there were quite a number of chips that had to be paid out to players. I felt very bad for one individual who had left the $3/$6 Limit table to go to the bathroom and wasn't dealt a hand, as he didn't receive anything. The rest of the players at the table got a little over $2300 each. That is one expensive bathroom break!
As far as my poker for the rest of the weekend, it was pretty uneventful. After receiving my room share of the Jackpot I took my break, and my evening session ended up being a $1 loss. I was profitable up until, in the last orbit, I got KK and someone else got AA. I lost most of my profit for the session in that hand, and then lost another small pot to be $1 down for the session. I was planning on being done for the weekend, but a played a couple hours late on Saturday and had a small losing session to the tune of $41. In that session, I actually had AA against someone else's KK, but I had already lost some chips so when I doubled up that hand it didn't get me to the profitable side. I can't really complain about the poker this weekend, though, as that first session on Friday was very profitable.
On the bowling side of things, it was a pretty uneventful state tournament for me. No real good series to report. I had a couple good games here and there, but never put together a good series. A couple of people I was bowling with put together some good numbers, and one bowler of that group in particular, Iggy, put together one of the best, if not the best, 9-game series I've seen at State Tournament. He had series of 730, 737, and 648 (I think, it may have been a couple pins higher/lower), for a 9-game total of 2115. An excllent score for all-events, and just great bowling all weekend by him. Of course, if those houses weren't lefty houses it might have been a different story....just kidding, Iggy. It was very impressive.
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