Wow, been a while...

It has been a while since I blogged, but with good reason. I had been spending a lot of time with my wife and kids before they left for Canada, and now…

The family is gone, and poker takes center stage. The next 29 days will be full of poker, TV, music, drinking, sleeping, oh yah, and working from 8-6 M-F. I got it off to a bang earlier this week, as I had a home game at 8, I raced home at 6 to play 2 hours of internet cash games before heading over.

I managed to be up about 2 buy-ins, with 2 key hands contributing to my success. The first was me raising in late position with 54dd to $1.75, the button calls and the BB raises to $4, I make a pretty loose call as does the button. The flop comes a dreamy 449. The BB leads out for $10, I min-raise to $20 with $25 behind, button folds, BB pushes all-in, I call obviously, he shows AA and doesn’t improve.

The other big hand of the day was a Fuel-inspired gem, with me raising with 55 from middle position and getting call by both blinds. Flop comes KQ5, perfect flop. SB bets out $4, BB calls, I call. Turn is an A. SB bets $6, BB raises $15, I push all in, SB folds, BB calls with AQ and does not improve.

I was up nearly 3 buy-ins about 10 minutes before I quit, but I got KK all in preflop vs. QQ and the guys flops a Q. Typical.

Headed over to my home game, a $50 rebuy tourney with 13 guys, all but 3 or 4 guys play very tight. Hence, there were only 9 rebuys, 5 by one guy. You can only rebuy if you are less than ½ of the starting stack, and that includes the add-on period, so the structure doesn’t really emphasize a lot of rebuys anyways.

About 15 minutes before the rebuy period ended, I am still near my starting stack, and pick up 55 UTG (6-handed) and raise, CO calls (very loose) and BB calls (tight). Flop comes 655. LOL!! It is checked around. Turn is a 4. BB checks, I bet small, CO raises, SB calls, I call. Before the river comes out, the button says, ‘all-in’ out of turn. When the river comes out (a J I think), the SB checks, I check knowing that the CO is going all in, he goes all it, SB insta-calls, as do I, SB shows 44 for a turned boat, CO shows 87 for a turned straight, and of course I show my quads. :D

I limped to the last 6 players, where I took 2 guys out in successive hands with AQ, both up against KQ, and both times I hit trip Aces unnecessarily.

On the bubble (4-handed), I pick up AA against the shorty that had moved all-in with K9 and take him out when I hit a set and he’s drawing dead after the flop. At this point, there is a huge chip leader, and one shorty and me in the middle. The shorty goes out with KT vs. the big stack’s AQ and we are down to heads up.

After I double up to get to a 2:1 chip disadvantage, I pick up JJ, big stack raises, and I re-raise all in, he calls with . . . 94?? Board comes T9447. LOL!! So sick. I was only in for my $50 and took home $330 for 2nd, instead of the $550 for first, but not bad at all. So far, I have played that specific home game 3 times, have only bought in for the $50 to start each time, and finished 2nd twice for a combined $630, so it has been pretty kind to me.

Then tonight, I played 7 $8 36-man SNGs for a Sunday Million seat. Managed to cash for $20 in 2 of them, and then this:



Not a huge cash, but it's something. This has my backroll back up the $750 level, which is up from $350ish after I cashed out everything to pay the mortgage.

Anyways, off to have eye surgery in Mexico City, so I will be out of range for the next 5-6 days. Hope everyone is well, and good luck at the tables.

Ryan

July 11 - Poker Night…

I have been running so bad playing live poker these days, that I turned down an invite to someone’s home game that I have played before, in exchange for my wife wanting to have the night out, and me staying home to play online. I can’t think of the last time I did that, but I have been royally screwed playing live lately and not really in the mood.

I been running pretty well playing my 6-man SNG trial, I am up to 100 SNGs and have an ROI of 11%. If I could run like that over 1000 SNGs, I would be pretty happy. Plus, I got my rakeback yesterday, so I am feeling decent again about my bankroll. Usually I take my rakeback and enter a tournament that I normally would not (last time, I played the 50/50 on FT) but I don’t think I’ll play that tonight, will stick with the 9PM EST $26 donkfest, and see what happens.

Played a little bit of cash over the last few days, not really much to comment on, other than the play is super super bad on JokerStars:

PokerStars Game #18700723178: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/07/09 - 16:37:33 (ET)
Table 'Jimarnold' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: PJS JR. ($58.95 in chips)
Seat 2: Danischogla ($13.80 in chips)
Seat 3: 1-terror-rob ($33.45 in chips)
Seat 4: Comanderone ($55.05 in chips)
Seat 5: wjmitchell ($84.75 in chips)
Seat 6: uranus18 ($56 in chips)
Seat 7: atac03 ($48.15 in chips)
Seat 8: ndritom ($22.10 in chips)
Seat 9: Mr. Martini7 ($26.25 in chips)
Mr. Martini7: posts small blind $0.25
PJS JR.: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR. [Ad Ah]
Danischogla: calls $0.50
1-terror-rob: calls $0.50
4 folds
ndritom: calls $0.50
Mr. Martini7: calls $0.25
PJS JR.: raises $5 to $5.50
Danischogla: folds
1-terror-rob: calls $5
ndritom: calls $5
Mr. Martini7: folds
*** FLOP *** [3d 3s 2s]
PJS JR.: bets $31.50
1-terror-rob: calls $27.95 and is all-in
ndritom: folds
Uncalled bet ($3.55) returned to PJS JR.
*** TURN *** [3d 3s 2s] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [3d 3s 2s 8d] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PJS JR.: shows [Ad Ah] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
1-terror-rob: mucks hand
PJS JR. collected $70.40 from pot

I mean, did my bets not scream overpair? Guess not, or he felt like throwing his money away.

Other than that hand, not really much going on. I have played 7 step 1’s on PS for the WCOOP, which have generated 3 step 2’s and now 1 step 3 which I still have. Probably will play that tonight if I am feeling up for it.

My condolences to Loretta who busted from the main event. I was really hoping for you.

Hope everyone is well, talk to you all soon.

Ryan

July 8 Update

Not much going on in the poker front these days. Haven’t really been playing much, my wife is busy, kids are out of school, so more of a handful, work is busy, same old story as always.

I have not played an MTT in quite some time, sticking to 6-man turbo SNGs on FT. My 500 SNG challenge is going ok, and through 73 SNGs I have an ROI around 9%. I guess that is pretty good, but not that exciting.

I haven’t played any cash games, and I don’t think that I have played online poker for more than 35-40 minutes in a row for at least 3 weeks. Kinda gay. Once everyone leaves on July 29th, that will change, but for now, things are slow.

GOOOOOO Loretta at the ME, and here’s hoping Lucko has a good run in the Caesar’s megastack. Rooting for you guys!!

Talk to you all soon.

Ryan

Home game debacle…

I play a juicy home game about once a month. We usually play when my two ex-bosses are available. He bets on every flop that he is in and shuts down on the river if he has nothing. She only bets when she has the goods, but calls gutshots all the way to the river. The other players are very much calling stations, ‘just wanting to see one more card’ all of the time. It’s wonderful.

The one problem is that when you raise, 6x or even 10x the BB, you get at least 3-4 callers. When you flop the goods, you are going to get paid off all the way to the river. But if you are holding AA and the flop comes 368, you have to wonder if you have the best hand anymore.

Last night’s game can be summed up in just a few hands:

Hand #1: I have 66 in the BB. We are about 20 hands into the game, and no pot has been over $20. (We are playing $1/$2, everyone buys in for $200) I keep talking about getting some fireworks going, and that if everyone limps to me, I am going to raise. Of course, almost everyone limps to me in the BB and I raise to $15. 4 people call. Ahh, nice pot brewing. Flop comes T64, 2 hearts. Niiiiiiice. I lead out for $30 and get 2 callers. Turn is a K. Not a bad card, not a heart, I still have the best hand for sure. I lead out for $60 with about $100 behind. Everyone folds to the last guy who hums and haws for a minute, and says, “I just can’t fold this hand…” I put him on a flush draw, maybe with top pair, maybe two pair. He finally calls. River is a Q. I push and he insta-calls. I show my set, he shows AJ, no heart, fuckin’ gutshot runner-runner BS. REEEE-BUY.

Hand #2: I have QQ, raise to $12 and get 4 callers. Flop come QT8 2 clubs, I lead out get 2 callers. Turn is a low club, I bet, 1 caller, and the guy beside me goes all-in, I fold, they both have flushes.

Hand 3: I have AA, I raise to $17 after a lot of limpers, 2 callers. Flop is J62, I bet $50 and get 1 caller. Turn is a 9 and the villain insta-goes all-in for $400, I fold, he shows J9, what a bad push.

Hand 4: I fold to a $6 raise with Q8 which would have made quads and watch 2 other guys get it all in for a $500 pot, each having an A on a QQTQA board. Gay.

Hand 5: The only good one of the night for me. I have rebought again and I have $300 in front of me. Again, I make the comment about fireworks and that I am raising if it comes around to me limped. I get 44 in the BB and a lot of limpers, I raise to $12, 1 caller, another guy who only bets with good cards raises to $35, and I know I am behind now, but I call, other person calls, $120 in the pot. Flop comes 843. I check, and the 2nd caller insta-pushes for $250, re-raiser thinks about it for 2 minutes, he is wondering what I am going to do, and finally re-raises all-in to isolate, I actually thought about this for a while, as the insta-pusher could have 88, would be tell-tale of my night for sure. I finally do call, insta-pusher has 33 for a set of 3’s, re-raiser has KK (obviously) and I have my set of 4’s, which by some miracle of the world hold up and I take a $800 pot.

Somehow, through all of this $hit, I end up down only about $250 on the night, one of the guys was up $1,200.

Anyways, was a shitty night, thank goodness for my set of 4’s near the end of it, took away a little bit of the pain.

Won’t play any more live poker for a few weeks, and internet poker will be limited until next week. I hope to have another update mid-week next week.

Good luck at the tables everyone. Talk to you all soon.

Ryan

Happy Belated Canada Day

Hope all of my fellow Canadians had a wonderful Canada Day. Our family and some friends got together to celebrate, had a few beers, dressed up in red and white, the whole bit. The kids ran around, did the slip’n’slide thing, ran around, got tired, went to bed early, and aloud for a quiet evening at the house after the party. Was very nice.

On the poker front, I have set out to play 500 6-man SNGs at the $6 level on FT and make an assessment of my play based on those results. If I can achieve an ROI over 10%, I will move up to the $11 level. If not, I will do another 500 games at the $6 level again and see if I can improve. So far, I am through 30 games, and I have an ROI of about 13%.

Even in 30 games, it is amazing the swings I have had, even playing the same way for all 30 games. I won 4 of the first 5 games, then didn’t cash for 11 games in a row, then won the next 3 games, shit like that. I like SNGs because the variances seem to be less than cash, but sometimes it’s amazing the swings you can have.

I am also starting the steps program on PokerStars, trying to qualify for one of the WCOOP events. Obviously, if I do something crazy like qualify for the main event, I would take the T$, but we will see. So far, I’ve played 3 step 1’s, and now have 1 step 2 ticket. We will see how that goes.

I am not playing any cash lately due to some huge losses in the last week, I was down $200+ in about 5 minutes playing 50NL the other day, most of the losses coming from once when I was AIPF blind vs. blind with KK vs. AA, once with I was AI post-flop on a J-high board with AA vs. AQ and he hit’s runner runner straight? That had was so fucked up. Couple of other bluffs gone bad, and about $230 was gone in a few minutes. So I am now down to $325ish in my roll, which sort of sucks, but that is why I am playing the $6 SNGs to build it back up. I should get a rackback payment in the next few days for $60ish so that will help as well.

The wife and I are doing great, and she heads up with the kids for vacation in 27 days. Ahhhh….

Peace out boys, good luck at the tables. A good luck Loretta and whoever else is headed to the main event. I will be rooting for you!

Ryan

Mixed Results

I wanted to start off by wishing good luck to all of my fellow bloggers that will be participating in the WSOP main event. I wish everybody luck, and I hope Loretta can pull it off by winning the whole damn thing on a freeroll.

As for myself, I am obviously not going to Vegas for the WSOP. I had plans about 3 months ago to get out for the last $1,500 NLHE event, but with all of the things going on at home, with my wife extremely busy with her work, it would have been impossible. I do get the whole month of August to myself and would like to get up there for a weekend, but within those 4 weeks, I need to get over to Mexico City to get LASIK on my eyes, so that might put a kink in things.

As far as poker goes, I am really flabbergasted to say the least. I had been on a decent incline as far as cashes go in 6-man SNG turbos, and all of a sudden, I failed to cash in 14 in a row. 8x$6, 2x$11, 2x$22 and 1x$33. I finished 3rd in what seemed like all of them. And my bust-out hands are a series of the cruelest bad beats you ever did see. Aces getting cracked, straights getting flushed on the river, and in what seemed like the last 5 or 6 bust-outs, KK, QQ or JJ vs. A-rag with an ace hitting every frickin’ time.

I am not one to whine about bad beats, but it was seriously shocking the series of beats I took. If you added them all up together as a probability, the chances would be one in a million for sure.

Anyways, I had to take a break from SNGs, because I was just getting raped, so the last couple of days, I got in about 1,000 hands of 50NL. I just wanted a change from the norm. Anyways, the results over that time recouped the $150+ I lost playing SNGs. Most of the profit coming from these hands:







The second hand there is pretty sick, and I manage to hit running jacks to take the pot, 2 outs on the turn and 4 outs on the river, something finally went my way.

Those two hands, coupled with some other standard play at 50NL have me even in the last 4 days, which is wonderful considering how shitty I have been running in 6-man SNGs.

Anyways, no poker for me in the next 3-4 days, probably until the weekend. Hopefully we are having a live game at my house on Saturday, but if not, I will be grinding away at the virtual tables instead.

Thanks all for reading, good luck to everyone.

Ryan

2nd place finish

The wife and her friends went out to the movies last night, so I found a spot to be able to play some poker for about 3 hours. I was considering playing a 180-man on Stars, but because I wanted to get done in less than 3 hours, I looked for a tournament with 60-120 people in it. Ultimately, I decided on a $3 tourney on FT that, when I registered, had about 90 people in it with 2 minutes left in registration. By the time I had tucked the kids in bed and returned to my seat 10 minutes into the tourney, there were 250+ entrants. Sigh…

First hand of significance came up just a minute or so after I sat down:

Seat 1: PJS JR (1,585)
Seat 2: Taly87 (850)
Seat 3: Daniel Nigreanu (510)
Seat 4: JEY43 (2,250)
Seat 5: big_val5 (1,418)
Seat 6: USC_Elation (2,512)
Seat 7: scat1028 (3,180)
Seat 8: ace1won (1,835)
Seat 9: canubeatme (1,380)
USC_Elation posts the small blind of 20
scat1028 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Ad Ac]
ace1won raises to 120
canubeatme calls 120
PJS JR raises to 440
6 folds
ace1won raises to 1,835, and is all in
canubeatme folds
PJS JR calls 1,145, and is all in
ace1won shows [Kh Kd]
PJS JR shows [Ad Ac]
Uncalled bet of 250 returned to ace1won
*** FLOP *** [Qs 7h 9c]
*** TURN *** [Qs 7h 9c] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 7h 9c 5c] [Qd]
ace1won shows two pair, Kings and Queens
PJS JR shows two pair, Aces and Queens
PJS JR wins the pot (3,350) with two pair, Aces and Queens

Pretty standard there, only 1 hand that could beat him, and obviously I had it. About 5 hands later, this one comes up…

Seat 1: PJS JR (3,350)
Seat 2: Taly87 (810)
Seat 3: Daniel Nigreanu (510)
Seat 4: JEY43 (2,390)
Seat 5: big_val5 (1,418)
Seat 6: USC_Elation (2,702)
Seat 7: scat1028 (3,120)
Seat 9: canubeatme (1,220)
canubeatme posts the small blind of 20
PJS JR posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Qc Ah]
2 folds
JEY43 calls 40
big_val5 folds
USC_Elation calls 40
2 folds
PJS JR raises to 250
JEY43 has 15 seconds left to act
JEY43 raises to 2,350, and is all in
PJS JR calls 2,100
PJS JR shows [Qc Ah]
JEY43 shows [Kc Qs]
*** FLOP *** [Kh 9c Ac]
*** TURN *** [Kh 9c Ac] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 9c Ac 7h] [7d]
PJS JR shows two pair, Aces and Sevens
JEY43 shows two pair, Kings and Sevens
PJS JR wins the pot (4,840) with two pair, Aces and Sevens

I didn’t figure him for a limp re-steal with aces or kings, so I just went with the hand. Fortunately, my hand held up. From there, because I had so many chips in comparison to the blinds, I didn’t get involved in too many more pot for the next 20-25 minutes. I wasn’t really getting anything, so I just laid back and waited. I bluffed at one big pot that netted me about 1,200 chips, and then the next big one came up:

Seat 1: midtown101 (6,990)
Seat 2: joaokar (3,218)
Seat 3: SaM ShAbAAm (4,954)
Seat 4: spacenoodle (10,567)
Seat 5: jersey eyed (5,584)
Seat 6: Erskineballer24 (1,423)
Seat 7: holynuckingfuts (3,755)
Seat 8: PJS JR (7,835)
Seat 9: BLACKHEART91 (910)
midtown101 posts the small blind of 60
joaokar posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Ac Jd]
4 folds
holynuckingfuts calls 120
PJS JR calls 120
BLACKHEART91 folds
midtown101 calls 60
joaokar raises to 3,218, and is all in
holynuckingfuts folds
PJS JR raises to 7,835, and is all in
midtown101 folds
PJS JR shows [Ac Jd]
joaokar shows [Ts Ah]
Uncalled bet of 4,617 returned to PJS JR
*** FLOP *** [4c Kh 7h]
*** TURN *** [4c Kh 7h] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4c Kh 7h Jh] [8h] ICK!
PJS JR shows a pair of Jacks
joaokar shows a flush, Ace high
joaokar wins the pot (6,676) with a flush, Ace high

That one stung, and I got berated by everyone at the table for my limp re-raise, but whatever, I was ahead, like I thought I was, and I got sucked out on. What can you do? I got my chips back within a couple of minutes anyways…

Seat 1: midtown101 (5,420)
Seat 2: Cro Owl (2,645)
Seat 3: SaM ShAbAAm (7,087)
Seat 5: jersey eyed (5,944)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (7,921)
Seat 7: holynuckingfuts (4,445)
Seat 8: PJS JR (5,699)
Seat 9: TVtruckGUY (1,142)
jersey eyed posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Ks As]
Fivesocksdoc calls 160
holynuckingfuts raises to 475
PJS JR raises to 5,699, and is all in
6 folds
holynuckingfuts calls 3,970, and is all in
PJS JR shows [Ks As]
holynuckingfuts shows [Ad Qs]
Uncalled bet of 1,254 returned to PJS JR
*** FLOP *** [Td Qh Js] weeeeeeeee!!
*** TURN *** [Td Qh Js] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Td Qh Js Th] [3h]
PJS JR shows a straight, Ace high
holynuckingfuts shows two pair, Queens and Tens
PJS JR wins the pot (9,210) with a straight, Ace high

Thank you very much. I waited around for about 25-30 hands while getting nothing, before I get involved in another big pot:

Seat 1: midtown101 (4,863)
Seat 2: Cro Owl (3,074)
Seat 3: SaM ShAbAAm (7,377)
Seat 4: DAWG UGLY MATT (6,100)
Seat 5: shipitrealhard (7,169)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (6,280)
Seat 7: Mr Memorabilia (7,875)
Seat 8: PJS JR (11,104)
Seat 9: rhoegg (4,513)
All antes posted
shipitrealhard posts the small blind of 120
Fivesocksdoc posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Ah Kh]
Mr Memorabilia folds
PJS JR raises to 888
rhoegg folds
midtown101 calls 888
5 folds
*** FLOP *** [6c 2h Ts] Definitely not the best flop
PJS JR bets 1,440
midtown101 calls 1,440
*** TURN *** [6c 2h Ts] [Qh] Good card, straight and flush draw now
PJS JR bets 2,640 might as well just put him in…
midtown101 calls 2,510, and is all in
PJS JR shows [Ah Kh]
midtown101 shows [Td Ad] crap…
Uncalled bet of 130 returned to PJS JR
*** RIVER *** [6c 2h Ts Qh] [7h] weeeeeee!
PJS JR shows a flush, Ace high
midtown101 shows a pair of Tens
PJS JR wins the pot (10,261) with a flush, Ace high

That was a nice one to win. I am now top 3 or 4 in chips, and essentially rolling. Only lost 1 big hand, and I am getting my money in ahead.

Then, I make my first big laydown of the tournament:

Seat 1: jersey eyed (6,679)
Seat 2: Cro Owl (6,418)
Seat 3: SaM ShAbAAm (10,136)
Seat 5: a10fouru (12,385)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (7,449)
Seat 7: Mr Memorabilia (9,623)
Seat 8: PJS JR (18,683)
Seat 9: Pay Station II (4,035)
Antes posted
Fivesocksdoc posts the small blind of 150
Mr Memorabilia posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Kd Ah]
PJS JR raises to 1,099
4 folds
a10fouru calls 1,099
Fivesocksdoc calls 949
Mr Memorabilia calls 799
*** FLOP *** [9h 3h 3d]
Checks around
*** TURN *** [9h 3h 3d] [Ks]
Fivesocksdoc checks
Mr Memorabilia bets 1,500
PJS JR calls 1,500 what do you think of the call?
a10fouru has 15 seconds left to act
a10fouru raises to 10,596
2 folds
PJS JR has 15 seconds left to act
PJS JR folds THOUGHTS??
Uncalled bet of 9,096 returned to a10fouru
a10fouru mucks
a10fouru wins the pot (9,096)

I just didn’t feel right about the way he bet, and decided to lay it down. Maybe he had KQ or KJ, but I wasn’t sure, so I got out of there. I then won an 8,000-chip pot with top pair, crappy kicker to a guy who flopped middle pair and called me all the way to the river. I was now at 21,000 chips and going strong.

Here’s my next big hand:

Seat 4: F0RrealS0N (25,133)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (56,796)
Seat 7: Everlastrr (9,365)
Seat 8: PJS JR (23,938)
Seat 9: tomfoolery72 (21,642)
Everyone antes
F0RrealS0N posts the small blind of 400
Fivesocksdoc posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Qc Qh]
Everlastrr raises to 9,265, and is all in
PJS JR raises to 23,838, and is all in
3 folds
PJS JR shows [Qc Qh]
Everlastrr shows [Tc Ah]
Uncalled bet of 14,573 returned to PJS JR
*** FLOP *** [2s 6h Kh]
*** TURN *** [2s 6h Kh] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [2s 6h Kh 3h] [6s]
PJS JR shows two pair, Queens and Sixes
Everlastrr shows a pair of Sixes
PJS JR wins the pot (20,230) with two pair, Queens and Sixes

We are down to 10 players, and waiting to knock out one guy. It finally happens, and the final table looks like this to start:

Seat 1: ajt1974 (11,830)
Seat 2: 5710 (10,459)
Seat 3: evienneau (64,342)
Seat 4: F0RrealS0N (19,258)
Seat 5: trey0924 (152,218)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (67,021)
Seat 7: Anne-Marina (14,152)
Seat 8: PJS JR (32,678)
Seat 9: tomfoolery72 (21,042)

I am in fourth position in chips, but not for long. After knocking out one guy with 99 vs. his KT, the following hand came up that shot me up the leaderboard:

Seat 1: ajt1974 (22,760)
Seat 3: evienneau (44,140)
Seat 4: F0RrealS0N (41,598)
Seat 5: trey0924 (132,838)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (104,971)
Seat 8: PJS JR (38,126)
Seat 9: tomfoolery72 (8,567)
Everyone antes
evienneau posts the small blind of 600
F0RrealS0N posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [4h 4s]
trey0924 calls 1,200
Fivesocksdoc calls 1,200
PJS JR calls 1,200
2 folds
evienneau calls 600
F0RrealS0N checks
*** FLOP *** [2d 4c Js] GIN!!
evienneau checks
F0RrealS0N bets 1,200
2 folds
PJS JR raises to 4,800 Bet your sets baby!
evienneau folds
F0RrealS0N calls 3,600
*** TURN *** [2d 4c Js] [5c]
F0RrealS0N checks
PJS JR bets 31,976, and is all in
F0RrealS0N calls 31,976
PJS JR shows [4h 4s]
F0RrealS0N shows [Jd 5s] unlucky there on the turn
*** RIVER *** [2d 4c Js 5c] [9d]
PJS JR shows three of a kind, Fours
F0RrealS0N shows two pair, Jacks and Fives
PJS JR wins the pot (80,602) with three of a kind, Fours

The next big one came up very quickly after that one:

Seat 1: ajt1974 (28,210)
Seat 3: evienneau (45,790)
Seat 5: trey0924 (128,488)
Seat 6: Fivesocksdoc (92,604)
Seat 8: PJS JR (78,402)
Seat 9: tomfoolery72 (19,506)
All antes
PJS JR posts the small blind of 800
tomfoolery72 posts the big blind of 1,600
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [9d 9s]
ajt1974 folds
evienneau raises to 6,800
trey0924 folds
Fivesocksdoc calls 6,800
PJS JR calls 6,000
tomfoolery72 folds
*** FLOP *** [Ah 4h 9c] GIN AGAIN!!
PJS JR checks
evienneau bets 1,600
Fivesocksdoc calls 1,600
PJS JR raises to 9,999 Bet your sets baby!!
evienneau folds
Fivesocksdoc calls 8,399
*** TURN *** [Ah 4h 9c] [3d]
PJS JR has 15 seconds left to act
PJS JR bets 61,403, and is all in
Fivesocksdoc calls 61,403
PJS JR shows [9d 9s]
Fivesocksdoc shows [Td Ac] drawing dead!! WEEEE!!
*** RIVER *** [Ah 4h 9c 3d] [Jc]
PJS JR shows three of a kind, Nines
Fivesocksdoc shows a pair of Aces
PJS JR wins the pot (167,604) with three of a kind, Nines

Of course, now I am the chipleader and steamrolling. We got down to 3-handed shortly after, with one guy and myself having 90% of the chips, though I doubled up the shorty when my AT couldn’t hold off his A7 AIPF. About 2 hands later, the other guy took out the shorty AQ vs. KQ and we were heads-up. This is how it looked starting heads-up:

Seat 3: evienneau (246,646)
Seat 8: PJS JR (146,354)

That changed quickly after this hand:

Seat 3: evienneau (260,001)
Seat 8: PJS JR (132,999)
evienneau antes 300
PJS JR antes 300
evienneau posts the small blind of 1,200
PJS JR posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [5c Th]
evienneau raises to 4,800
PJS JR raises to 19,999
evienneau calls 15,199
*** FLOP *** [3d Ts 6h]
PJS JR bets 29,999
evienneau raises to 239,702, and is all in
PJS JR calls 82,701, and is all in
evienneau shows [6c 7h]
PJS JR shows [5c Th]
Uncalled bet of 127,002 returned to evienneau
*** TURN *** [3d Ts 6h] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [3d Ts 6h 3c] [4h]
evienneau shows two pair, Sixes and Threes
PJS JR shows two pair, Tens and Threes
PJS JR wins the pot (265,998) with two pair, Tens and Threes

I should have been able to take it down from there, but then this $hit happened…

Seat 3: evienneau (149,502)
Seat 8: PJS JR (243,498)
evienneau antes 300
PJS JR antes 300
evienneau posts the small blind of 1,200
PJS JR posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PJS JR [Kh Ah]
evienneau raises to 4,800
PJS JR raises to 243,198, and is all in
evienneau calls 144,402, and is all in
PJS JR shows [Kh Ah]
evienneau shows [Ac Qs] HOLD BABY!!!
Uncalled bet of 93,996 returned to PJS JR
*** FLOP *** [Qh Qd 9h]
*** TURN *** [Qh Qd 9h] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Qh Qd 9h Qc] [5c] LOL!
PJS JR shows three of a kind, Queens
evienneau shows four of a kind, Queens
evienneau wins the pot (299,004) with four of a kind, Queens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 299,004 | Rake 0

That was humorous actually. The match ended soon after that when I tried to bluff on the river and he caught me. Then I got my last 30k in chips in with KJ and he calls with AK, game over. $130 cash for a $3 entry is pretty good, though I would have like the $204 for first.

Visual proof:



Anyways, gotta get to work, but thought I would share my final table with everyone. Will post again soon, although probably won’t play again until Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Thanks all for reading, and good luck at the tables.

Ryan