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Overall, I'm delighted. The cards were kind (until they were not....) and I played far more aggressively than I usually do.

A tremendous 3 hours of poker, maybe the most enjoyable I can recall.

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We return from the break & I take another pot.

And then a very weird pot goes off.

I raise with A-2-6-Q-K. (I forget the suits but it's not relevant).

It comes.....


 



Ooh, lovely.

POT

Then I may have audibly gasped when he 3 bet me.

I suppose he CAN have 2-2 in his hand, but more likely we have the same 6-2.

In a flash, all the chips go in & cards are otb.

And yes, he has the same boat....


A-2-6-8-9 v my A-2-6-Q-K.

We just have to hold now, for the chop, but we have better (bigger) danglers.

To my horror, the Dealer Turns the 9, & then for rubs, Rivers another 9.

GG.

FWIW, the odds on that flop are 50% chop, 27.5% me 22.5% him.

So it's not a huge outdraw really, but it's certainly not an ideal time for it.

A good example of how every street in 5 Card can change things. He flopped sixes full of deuces, turned sixes full of nines, & rivered nines full of sixes.

It could just as easily flipped my way, or chopped. Welcome to 5 Big O.

PS - it was for a 600,000 pot with average at around 320k, & Blinds 5k-10k. Pretty sure I could have gone a long way with a 600,000 stack.

2nd Break, we have ~300k, just below average.


129 players have departed already & I've had 2 mini-ladders.

...and we SCOOP

Cards go cold & I dribble down to 100k so decided to go for it with anything marginal, rather than get too low.


Two callers, half decent flop, ALL-IN, both call....

Several small pots take me to 312k, then in a big pot fella jams on me. I have nothing yet, but both nut draws so easy call. Brick-brick and I'm down to 160k, = 20BB

Aces again! No takers this time.

Win 2 more small ones uncontested & now I'm above average.

A quite remarkable start, as I find Aces - good Aces - the first three hands on the spin. Raise each time, attract a caller or two each time, but take it down on the flop each time. They were all good flops for my hand.

So suddenly, my 114k is 215k.

Off we go, starting with, I think, 114k. (The solo chip on the left, that looks like a Yellow 5,000 is actually a green 25k).