Paul Testud would get a $100 bounty… if it was online… but instead he’s on his way to possibly cashing in the EPT with my chips.
Another frustrating day of poker, card dead for most of the first two sessions.
I won the first pot of the day ironically by raising on the button with KJ it went uncontested by the blinds.
That was the best hand I saw in the first level. I picked up a small pot with 23 on the BB when the SB and table chipleader completed. We saw a 953 flop two spades. We both checked. A three came on the turn, he checked and by this time I thought a check would lead to a bet on the river from him, which I planned to re-raise - except the river came a nine. Now I was concerned that he may have two pair with the nines and fives. I knew he didn’t have better than that on the flop - or a nine. He bet 2300. Which because of my low stack was quite a lot to me. I suspected that he had a busted flushdraw and eventually called. It was the right call.
I made a few attempts at raises with suited connectors but both times I got re-raised. Once I folded - The second time I went to raise and my thousand chip got stuck behind the line. So it was deemed a call. The player next to me Andreas Hoivold raised to 3k. It got folded back round to me. I felt that I couldn’t keep folding to a re-raise and decided to call. The flop came 692 rainbow. I pushed all in and had Andreas covered. I hoped he had AK AQ and would fold. He called for his 9k with pocket kings, they held. I was now down to just over 6k. With the blinds at 800 / 400 and running antes of 100 that was soon down to 4.4k when I found KQh in the small Blind and an uncontested pot. I pushed my 4400 in it was 3600 more to Andreas and I got him to call me blind. He called and turned over 83off. Neither of us hit a pair and King high took it down. I then got AQ the very next hand and pushed all in again. No callers but 2k in blinds. So I was now on 12.8k. I got JQoff the next hand… I considered playing it, but felt that it would be called if I pushed all in and would be too weak to raise or limp with it given my stack. So I folded. The flop came 8 9 10 I would have had the nuts against a pair of Aces and Paul testud’s 6s as it was they ended up splitting when the board ran a straight to the jack.
The reason I can recall all of these hands so well is because I played so few. My median hand was 74off.
So on to my next hand … Still sat on around 11k I made it 2700 to go from early position with A 10 - It looked like a monster at this stage. Paul Lecky pushed all in on the button for 15k - perhaps I should have called. But Paul and I know each other well and I know at best this is a race - and at worst I’m dominated by AK, AQ. AA or KK. I fold face up and he shows me nines.
So it’s back to waiting for a real hand. I’m down to 6k when the button raises and I find AJ in the Small Blind. I go all in and it’s folded to the button who calls with KQ. The flop comes J rag rag all hearts, a king on the river and I think I’m out of it. My opponent has the King of hearts - but an 8 of hearts on the river gives me the nut flush.
Having survived that I then get 99 on the button and push all in for circa 12.5k Paul Testud is Big Blind and it’s up to him as Andreas has folded. He thinks for longer than I would expect with AK. But he was always going to call. An Ace on the flop sends me to the rail.
And that is all Fatboy wrote.
