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nice read mondy happy to hear your doing well

Cheers mate <3

good luck at the Orleans today, no vegas for me this year been 9 years absent, maybe next summer

He's a horribly abrasive & small-minded man who dislikes me, & the feeling is distinctly mutual. And I know it will soon kick off between us, despite my best intentions not to get involved in any bad blood at the table. He's the sort who can start an argument in an empty room & we have a lot of history.

Early doors & we play a small pot which is checked down, it's a chop & the Dealer splits the pot.

3 hands later he suddenly complains that the Dealer short-changed him by 100 chips. Imagine starting an argument over 100 chips....

I have no idea if he's right or wrong, nor does anyone else, but he's getting very agitated now. I cba with all this & toss him a 100 chip across the table with a bit of a cutting comment, "there you go sunshine, happy now?" sort of thing. He gives me the mother of all dead eyes & I know trouble is brewing...

But not a problem, as he tilts off his entire stack the very next hand with an inexplicably poor play & he's history. I just about resist the temptation to give him a send-off.

Love this
I hate having nonsense at the table in cash games, but in tournaments I find it entertaining especially when they tilt it off afterwards.
You’re still better than me in mtts , I’m 0/3 and -3100 so far. 
Was great to see you though, and you can’t escape me at WSOP as I’ll look up your table number to say hi .
Hopefully get time for proper catch up rather than 30 seconds at breaks !
Catch you Monday if not before I think - WSOP O8 mix deffo my favourite one of the trip

Lost a bit of patience after that, & made several bad calls in the Stud 8 Rounds. Maybe too tired, more likely my Stud game is not up to scratch.

Soon it was gg, & now I'm $1,040 ($800 + $240) in the hole.

Back to my room with a foot long Subway & a choc ice, fell asleep on the sofa reading my book.

Today it's just a little $200 O8 over at South Point, with a 2pm start.

From Venetian, I drove across to The Orleans to Late Reg the $240 Omaha 8/Stud 8.

Ran a nice stack up early again, over 80,000 from 30,000 starting, but hard to know where I stood as they were not updating the Plasma - this had to be wrong...

I'm not going to blind off, time to find a spot quickly & try to get lucky.

A-2-K-J is a beautiful flipping hand & I try to iso the opener, but to my horror, 2 others come along & we're 4 way, I miss the High & get counterfeited on the low. Nice if we get there, but we don't.

Disappointed, obviously, but really pleased with how I played, & I enjoyed it immensely.

The problem of course when we build a stack is it is good play, or just run-good? It's hard to be objective & judge fairly. We'll never know, but in this case I fancy a bit of both. 

So that was that, $800 in the hole.

This is not going to end well....

 

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And then it happens.....

I don't need to educate anyone here on how fast things can change in MTT's.

I get in a hand & flop the nut low & wheel draw. Bet, call.

Turn brings me the wheel & nut flush draw in spades. Bet again, he 3 bets, & in a flash all the chips are in the middle.

He has the wheel too, so we both have half the pot locked. 1 of us will get three quarters, one of us a quarter.

I just need to swerve a 6, unless it's the 6 of spades, as he has a 7 high straight draw. If the 6 misses & the spade misses I get three quarters. A spade gives me three quarters too.

It's a red 6, & suddenly my lovely stack is decimated & I have to settle for a quarter, & I'm down amongst the dead men...

This is not going to end well....