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So despite Jay, Rob, Joe Tall and I busting out of the opening tourney on Day 1 (Chuck, Vanessa, Josh, and Wilt still in it), we had another chance to rebuy into it today (saturday).  We decided to play basketball instead.  Turns out that Flawless is basically the steve nash of poor quality poker player pick up basketball.  you just can’t give him the midrange jumper.  Vanessa was also kind of like kobe in that she jammed her finger but then drained some jumpers, but also like kobe in that her team lost to Rob (our team’s Jeff Pendergraph) and my team (the blazers, if you will).

Tonight I played some poker and continued to simply crush it at the tables.  +7k, putting me up like 12k on the trip.  Word.  Some hands:

Five limpers, I limp in the CO with 52cc, BTN (a decent reg) raises large, one guy calls and then I call cause we’re deep.  The flop is Q86 w/ 2 spades.  It checks through.  The turn is a 4 of spades, it checks to me and I pot it as a bluff, and the BTN calls me (other dude folds).  River is an offsuit 2, and I check-snapcall a bet of 450 or so on the river.  He said, you win, I said, what do you have, he said, Ten high, then I showed.

One hand I misplayed slightly:  Deepstacked, a guy opens to 145 at a 5/10 game when the straddle was OFF.  like, whatt, so obv I call in position with A4s.  A big fish calls in the blinds (fish had just won a decent sized pot off me when he flopped a flush with 59cc on an A84ccc board against my A8hh.)  Flop is 764, checks to the pFR who bets, I have a BDFD so I call, fish calls.  Turn is a K of spades giving me the FD, and it checks through.  River is an A, and the fish leads out for pot.  I get finnicky and flatcall, getting shown AQ.  Gotta be a raise I think.

Then, the real clincher hand, the nice guy from hand 1 and I are sitting about 450bb deep (he had stacked some guy with an underset when he 1-outed his quads).  He tells me its his last hand.  I’m on the button, he’s in the CO.  Five limpers, and I raise to 150 with J9s (the straddle was on).  He calls, and its HU.  Flop is Q86r.  He checks, I bet, and he checkraises to 650.  It was his last hand.  He’s obv got a set here.  So, I Call.  Pot is 1600 or so.  The turn is a 5, double gutting me (uh oh), and he bets 800.  At this point I’m saying to myself well, I’m already up 3k or so, so if I call this 800 and brick, Ill still book a +1500 session, but if I call and spike, I’ll book like a +7k session.  So I called, river was a T, and he c/c my shove with 66.  fun times.
looking forward to playing the best in the 5k HU challenge and also the main event.

Word up

Andrew