We spent the day with our friends in Leesburg yesterday, and had a very nice time.<\/p>\n
Got back to the hotel to relax for the evening. After dinner, I decided to enter the nightly Omaha Hi-Lo. I didn’t have a free entry queued up, so I ponied up the $22 to get in.<\/p>\n
170 entrants, top 20 paid. Some crazy hands along the way, including having my very nice stack cut in half by someone who got extremely lucky on me after being way behind. But, all’s well that ends well. I finished fourth, and got back $289 for my $22 entry fee. In the last hand, I had such a fantastic draw for scooping the pot, which would have put me in first place, but it didn’t happen, and I was out.<\/p>\n
I was already entered into tonight’s big one. Here are my detailed notes. For those who don’t want to read all the way, I missed the money, but just barely. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
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I had an entry already banked, but when I won another entry
\non New Year’s Eve, they automatically entered me into this
\none, and I didn’t “unregister”, so I am playing tonight, and
\nstill have one entry in the bank for a future tourney.<\/p>\n
20 minutes in, and I’m down a drop. Never been above my
\noriginal chip count, so it’s a slow start.<\/p>\n
A little patience paid off in back-to-back hands against the
\nsame person. In one, I had a read that he was bluffing, and
\nI called his raise pre-flop, then his bet on the flop and
\nhis bet on the turn (where I paired my K). He checked on the
\nriver and folded to a large bet on my part.<\/p>\n
The next hand, I limped with A9s. The flop came A49
\nrainbow. I checked, he bet, I raised, he re-raised, I
\nre-raised all-in. He had A7, and he’s out, and I am
\nbreathing a little better now.<\/p>\n
1063 entrants, top 110 paid.<\/p>\n
980 left, in 41st<\/p>\n
Made it to the first break. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
862 left, in 104th
\n796 left, in 149th
\n591 left, in 145th<\/p>\n
Made it to the second break. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
498 left, in 200th<\/p>\n
Lost a number of hands where folding was likely correct, but
\nwho knows. Then I got very lucky. I had 99 and I raised. The
\nbig stack at the table called. Flop came JT8 with two
\ndiamonds. I had the 9 of diamonds, but it’s the straight
\nthat emboldened me to bet with two overs. He called. The
\nturn was a J. I went all-in, he called. He had KJ, so he was
\ncrushing me. River was a 9, so I caught a full house and
\ndoubled up. Since then, I lost with AQ to AK, and with 77 to
\nKT when he flopped a straight.<\/p>\n
So, while I’m ahead of my double up, I gave back a ton of
\nchips on those two hands…<\/p>\n
393 left, in 208th<\/p>\n
After losing the blinds for a few rounds, I had AA on the
\nbutton, and the same big stack raised. I went all-in and he
\ncalled with TT. AA held up, and I’m back to nearly where I
\nwas when I last doubled up. Whew.<\/p>\n
325 left, in 128th<\/p>\n
I folded JJ in the small blind to a raise and a large
\nre-raise, both of him had me covered. One had AK, the other
\nKQ. JJ would have held up. Oh well, no guts, no glory…<\/p>\n
Was getting low on chips. Got AK in the small blind. UTG
\nraised, everyone folded, I re-raised all-in, and he had
\nAT. AK held up and I’m in better shape now.<\/p>\n
208 left, in 119th<\/p>\n
Made it to the third break. \ud83d\ude42 Crunch time is coming.<\/p>\n
184 left, in 125th
\n168 left, in 144th<\/p>\n
Got AA in the big blind, with the same guy raising when I
\nlast doubled up with AK. Everyone folded, I re-raised
\nall-in, and he called with KQo. AA held up, and I’m now in
\nmuch better shape than even before. I can easily make the
\nmoney if I “shut down”. So, we’ll see how it goes…<\/p>\n
144 left, in 87th
\n130 left, in 97th
\n126 left, in 101st<\/p>\n
Might be tighter than I thought. Oh well, some things never
\nchange…<\/p>\n
Went all-in with AK. Got called by someone with JJ. I
\nflopped a K, so I was in great shape, he had two outs. The
\nturn was a J, so I was toast. I finished in 120th, 10 out of
\nthe money. Like I said, I could almost definitely have
\nfolded my way into the money, but I’m a drop tired of doing
\nthat (though the “money” is nice), so I’m not upset with
\nmyself for “going for it”. Also, considering that I was
\nahead, I had a real shot to move way up in the standings if
\nI had more than doubled up there.<\/p>\n
So, can’t really complain, even though it didn’t happen this
\ntime…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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