KK, one behind the button. Seat 6 raises to 3500, Seat 7 calls as do I. Flop is a bunch of undercards. Seats 6 and 7 check, and I bet 10,000. Seat 6 folds, Seat 7 calls. The next card doesn’t change anything, so I bet 15,000. Seat 7 folds.
Two hands later, I have 55. Seat 5 raises to 2400, and two of us call. The flop is A79. I take the aggressive play and bet 7000. They both fold.
At last my dry spell seems to be over!
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And AA makes its appearance for the first time today. Without going into great detail (I am wearing down and not feeling particularly literate right now), I get some action and my stack grows to 128,000. This is where I need to be with three hours left in the day. My target stack is between 150,000 and 200,000. Getting there…
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The new Seat 9 is kind of hyperactive. He’s got a kind of twitchy energy that extends to his card play. Some of you may be too young to get this reference, but think Michael Keeton’s character in the great Eighties comedy Night Shift.
“Looooove brokers!”
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They are beginning to break tables up in our part of the tournament room. Basically, as people get knocked out of the tournament, their seats need to be filled, so they will take a table and send its people to the other tables. We are five tables (or 50 people) away from being sent elsewhere. With 2:45 left, it is pretty inevitable that I will be the new guy at another table soon.
And as much as I enjoyed Table 666, I have hated playing at Table 555. With all of the movement, it has been uniformly unfriendly. I suppose I was part of that, being in my bubble, but even so, there is just not that same camaraderie as we had the first day.
I can’t get away from this table fast enough.
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Up and down. I told my friend Mitch that I was going to play my favorite hand one time this tournament, good old Q 10.
I’d folded it three times so far this tournament, but it came suited in clubs so I called a 3500 bet to see what would happen.
The flop was A 7 4 with two clubs. On a semi-bluff, I bet 6000. Seat 4, one of the newish guys who looks a little like Grizzly Adams, called and then Seat 5 raised to 20,000. It was tough to make that call, so I didn’t. But Grizzly did. The next card was the ace of clubs, which would have given me the second nut flush. But it was also a paired board which was really dangerous.
Grizzly bet 25,000 and Seat 5 went all in. Grizzly called and Seat 5 had A7 for the boat. Grizzly lost a ton of chips and I ducked a bullet.
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If I make it out of here today, I’m going to have to change my flight home and get a new hotel room. Lisa’s given me permission to check out a more luxe location - maybe the Nobu. I got to get out of Day 2 first, though.
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AJ in the big blind against Twitchy in Seat 9. He raised to 4000, and I called. Flop was a bunch of low cards, so I bet 10,000. He called. Another low card hit on the turn, so I bet 20,000. Man, I never saw someone skittering furiously while sitting down. He kept looking at me and piling his chips like he was going to go all in, but I was the Sphinx.Disgusted, he laid it down.
137,500.
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One more hand with Twitchy. He raises to 8000 from the button. I have KJd and call, even though I have been told that KJ is fool’s gold.
Well, not this time. The flop is KJ7. I check to Twitchy, who check back. The next card is a Q. Scared of A 10, I check again, and he does too. The river card is another K, giving me the nuts. I bet 12,000, but he ain’t buying. I suspect he was just firing at me because of the last hand we had and everything that followed was a slow fold.
154,500 going into the last break.
SD, You done us proud.
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