Ummm, excuse me. Yeah, if I could just squeeze by you to look over there. You sir, could you raise your feet a bit? Maybe if you go left a little and I can just get in there to see...
Sigh... has anyone seen my sobriety anywhere?!
Oh well, who needs it - i got in on the action early this round, no more messing around.
K 10 off? And after three people there's no action yet? I raise! Oh, the button called. So did big blind. And one of them bet a Q 3 6 flop, more losing.
Not that it's hard when you play king ten off from a middle position. Raise no less. I raised K 10 off from a middle position... that's going to hurt in the morning.
Kings! Alright... I know how to play kings! I raise and get one caller. Flop comes J 7 4 with two clubs and I revert to playing like first three rounds me - I bet it big and he folds.
Ok... well, winning. A little.
Better than all that stupid losing.
A 9 off late... well I can raise that. Too bad seat 7, aka the big blind, raised me back. And while I had position, something about his shaking hand, posture, and overall demeanor rubbed me the wrong way, so I folded... and he showed kings.
Stupid losing... but that may have been a cheap/good loss, if there is such a thing.
Of course, the problem is that losing becomes contagious...
A 10 off middle position... I rase to 1500. Seat 7 makes it 3500 and he has position. Seat 8, also with position, calls...pricing me in. Flop comes 3 6 7 with a couple spades I don't have. I check, seat 7 bets 4,500. Seat 8 calls. I'm out, more losing... winning hand on what turned into a monster pot was seat 8 with pocket jacks.
Well under 30,000 now... not on tilt anymore, the crown royal saw to that, but I don't have a healthy chip stack. And if we're being honest, I'm probably lacking the wherewithal to, you know, play my way back.
Hmmm... well, let's see what happens...
Big blind, K Q off... I like it. Early position raises to 1200 plus one caller. Conservative seat one raises to 6,000... Holy cow! Ugh... and I'm out of playing out of position. Angry fold. Original raiser calls... flop came A Q 5. Seat one shoved, other guy called. Seat one had top two pair with AQ, other guy had AK. Runner runner 5s made it a chop, I would have lost to both of them.
Next hand, 4 7 off in the small blind and everyone folds. Call? Flop comes 6 6 10, we both check. He bet a third 6 on the turn and I went away... later he would say he had a hand, just not what it was.
I bet it was better than 4 7 off.
Sigh... more losing.
I got Q 10 off in the small blind and while that may not seem like a good hand, when you've been on a run like I have, it feels like pocket aces... so I played it with a couple people to a small raise. Flop came K J 3, an open ended straight draw! Which I checked. In fact, all four players checked... free draw! Turn was an 8, just missed. Seat one bet, I called. River was a queen. Ugh, give me something I can fold... or a nut straight. Seat one bet a couple thousand, I called knowing I was beat (Always a good call), and he showed AQ... queens, like me, but with a better kicker. Probably why regular me doesn't play Q 10 off out of position. I mean, i shouldn't be playing Q 10 off in any position, but certainly not in the small blind.
And I have to pee. And I only have like 20,000 chips. And there's still over a half hour left.
I hate today.
With about twenty minutes left, I get AQ off under the gun and raise. New seat 6 calls, so does seat 3 in the big blind. Flop comes 8 7 3, rainbow. How can I miss every flop? So I bet, a decent amount at 2,500... seat six calls. Ugh. Turn was a 4, I check, he dumps 7,000 on me... about half what I have left. Do I chase with two overs and one card to come? I did not.
Of course, then I realized that there's not much point in me coming back on Tuesday with less than 18,000... which is precisely what is in line to happen in the next 14 minutes... unless I can get knocked out first.
Of course, easier said than done... even in my inebriated, dilapidated state, I have trouble betting my endless run of 3 5's.
Although, to be fair, the last one was suited, so it was a little appealing.
Then they announced five hands left and dealt me A 9 off.
Seat 3 raised to 1,300 and I called with position. So did the big blind, seat 7. Flop came K J 10 off spades.
I had A diamonds, 9 spades. Seat 3 led out 3,700... whoa, big bet. I could fold, watch my 16k turn into 15.5k and come back Tuesday to shove within 3 rounds, or...
I shoved for my last 16,000. If I win, I can play a little on Tuesday. Otherwise I don't have to come back to shove. And I've got four to a flush. Four to a straight. Four to a straight flush. And an over... I've got outs.
Well, i had outs until seat six called my all in... followed by a call from seat 3. Seat 6 had A 3 spades, he flopped the nut flush. Seat 3 had 5 7 spades, he flopped a flush. What were the odds of three players having five spades with 3 spades on the flop? Doesn't matter, I didn't get my queen of spades for a straight flush and for the first time in six years, with four more hands to go, I'm out on day one.
Debrief coming tomorrow or tonight, but this may be the last run for me...
Thanks for reading!
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