Late night at the Kitchen Poker Table....

It is going to be a late evening of poker on-line tonight. I just started playing a $20 buy-in tournament. I haven’t played any poker yet today.

I still do a little mentoring in clinical psychology and every once in a while I may do a small computer consulting job. Today, I had a morning mentoring meeting, and then a meeting in a beautiful office overlooking the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla regarding a possible consulting contract. Then I rushed back home to take my RV in for servicing before this weekend at the “Superbowl of Poker” at Sycuan. I am planning on playing a two or three tournaments this weekend and work on my N/L game.

My non-playing time will be re-reading a couple of poker books out in the RV.

Tomorrow night I teach my last class at San Diego Community College. I have taught a class in computer technology for the last few years. But, due to budget cuts, I won’t be teaching there anymore unless things radically change. A private college I had taught part-time at declared bankruptcy last fall, so beside little consulting gigs I will be relying on my poker income for this year. It should be an interesting year.

The good news is I am really going to be free to play poker in many settings. I may decide to take a couple of road trips. I know at the end of February I will be at Harrah’s Rincon for a WPT event for about a week. In March we are taking the RV to a niece’s wedding in Salem, Oregon. I am planning on taking a couple of weeks and stopping at Casino’s on the way up and back. It seems like almost any month there are major tournament events either in L.A. or Vegas. I am not ready for the big event buy-ins but I like the variety of side actions and single table tournaments at these events.

Tonight's tournament update. I just got knocked out by an interesting hand.....
I had 6c7c I was one behind the button...
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ad, 5s, 7d ]
DofLG checks.
nsxdng checks.
Magnificent5 bets (125)
dave1078 raises (350) to 350
DofLG folds.
nsxdng folds.
Magnificent5 calls (225)**
Dealing Turn ** : [ 6h ]
Magnificent5 bets (501)
Magnificent5 is all-In.
dave1078 calls (455)dave1078 is all-In.
** Dealing River ** : [ Td ]

I decided to try to semi-bluff by raising to a little less then 1/2 of Magnigicent 5's chips with my pair. I had the best hand at that point. The turn made me two pair, but he hit a gutshot straight. Calling my raise was a bad move on his part that turned out very lucky.
This is where I would really like to have some peers that would analyze this hand for me. It was early in the tournament and I had just lost about 1/2 my chips on another suckout against my better hand. I saw this as an opportunity to build up my chips.

Was it a bad move on my part????? Looking for feedback.

I may see if I can find a discussion group to feed this one too and get some feedback from them.