Post written by Keith Tereszchuk
Well I guess card sharks with LIDARS would be more accurate to describe the attendees of the very first event of the DGS Poker Tour. Last Tuesday night saw some heated Texas Hold'em action at the Duck household as Tom was gracious enough to provide the venue for the inaugural event. The evening saw yours truly up against some hard-nosed DGS rounders in a high stakes, 5¢/10¢ no-limit cash game with minimum $10 buy-in. Tom established his table image early with his TAG (tight aggressive) style of play and took advantage of a hot run of cards to quickly become the chip leader at the table. From there, he continued to bully and intimidate the table by constructing a formidable stack monster.
Tom proudly posing with his stack monster.
It was at this point that the game started to loosen up as 9-year old Thomas returned home from soccer to find that his kitchen table was the sight of an old-fashioned brick and mortar cash game. Tom tried to dissuade his son from wanting to play by telling him that we were playing for real money, only to have Thomas immediately dash up the stairs to his room; and after a couple minutes of rummaging, returned to the table to present his father a huge handful of coins to pay for his buy-in. Young Thomas was now set to endure his first trial by fire at the poker table.
Tom offering young Thomas some sage advice before playing his first hand. Luiza looking upon her husband with a “I pray that Family and Children Services doesn't find out about this...” kinda look on here face.
Thomas played quite well for his first time and his father's tutelage shone through. In fact, it was only after his second or third hand that Thomas picked up some pocket aces and went heads up with James (seen in the red shirt above) and raked in a huge pot such that he could make a stack monster of his own.
Stack monsters abound.
Sadly though, his good fortune did not last very long and it was his own father that felted the lad with an obvious smug grin of delight and satisfaction. Unfazed and defiant, Thomas assured us that he would return to play with us next week for some more high-stakes action, ...right after he asks his dad for a raise in allowance.
Has anyone checked the whereabouts of Tom Duck prior to the Bortas Experiment? Did he take a run out to Pickle Lake, Ontario, with a cigarette lighter?
ReplyDeleteYou guys could not have had a better run of luck on whether the smoke has gone than this.
Maybe like his poker, it is not all luck. Cheers Ray Hoff