Investors Report, $240 PLO8 @ Binions. An amazing turnout, 192 runners, 30 minute clock & a decent structure. The average stack after 4 Levels was 30 Bigs, but it played nicely.
Really fun table, average age 192, with one Moaning Minnie, but everyone else was great craic. We eventually thawed out Moany Minnie, too.
Danny Newman, a tidy Stud, PLO & PLO8 player who I see here every year on the PLO & PLO8 circuit, was on the table, & the banter was amazingly good. Somehow we got round to Pete Costa doing well in the Seniors, then the sad loss of Uncle Kim. We swapped a hundred Mickey Wernick, Willie Tann, Derek Baxter & Lucy Rokach tales, but not really repeatable. No malicious stuff, just, you know, this & that. Danny used to have a house in Vegas, think Johnny Vac & Luton Pete (?) used to stay there, but he is staying in a hotel this year, so I don't know if he still has it. Poor fella has got shingles & was in obvious discomfort, but playing poker is a great distraction I suppose. He has a THM that stretches back over 20 years.
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=568I garnered chips easily & nicely early doors, was playing (relatively) aggro, & my 15,000 starting was soon 25,000. Then I got over-housed on the river & paid the geezer off, I just could not see how he could have the hand. He did.
Everyone was limping every hand pre, but when I raised, they all called. I button raised into SIX limpers with A-K-2-3dd, & they all called. It came J-J-4, kid bet out, we all folded like good children.
Everything was going pretty well though, until a nasty spot arose.
I had A-3-K-Kddcc, & had repotted it pre, & got a lone caller.
It came 2-7-J, three suits, he checked, I bet on the come, I have nut low draw, K-K, & back door diamonds. He calls.
Turn was the 2 of diamonds, adding the NFD to my outs, but on a paired board, he checked again, I bet again, he smoothed. Uh-oh.
River blanked (high card), & he set me in, I could not call with my one pair, (K-K), just as well as he showed quad 2's. Ugh. Can't really regret playing the hand, I had more outs than enough to scoopio, but of course the paired deuces were a red flag, though he's not forced to have one. Or two.
Next hand, in the Blinds, I have a bad king on a K-K-Q flop, I bet, get one caller.
Turn improved me to a bad house (K-K-K-7-7) on a K-K-Q-7 turn, I bet, my man smooths me. River J, I bet, he sets me in, bugger. Geezer was old, & been very tight so far, I could not quite find the minerals to call. He said without a touch of irony "good fold son", & promptly showed me K-A for trip Kings, no boat. Bleurgh. With hindisght, a dumb fold, but I could not see how he could raise me with worse. I was wronggggg.
It was all desperado stuff after that, hanging in with a 12 BB stack.
On the last hand of Level 12, I found a beaut, A-K-2-3, ssdd & potted it, & picked up one caller. I was pot-stuck so had to pot the all club J-6-3 flop, & we got it in. He had flopped the flush, the turn was a high card, & for rubs the river paired the 3, but my 3-3-3 was not good enough, & my low never got there.
So that was that I'm afraid. Am not running so good, it seems to me, + I've made a bad fold or two, but what comes round goes round, & the cards will fall better when they are good & ready.
Best fun I've had so far this trip, though that's not much consolation to stakers.
Well drawn, soon up with the leaders & showing much improved form, faded badly at the 3f pole. Might fare better with a tongue strap & Choc Thornton up top.
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