I'm not dead yet. Despite another card-dead run, I've managed to scrape together a $55,400 stack, good for 327th on Day 2A. That's $200 ahead of Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, or one ante at this point. The money starts at 873rd, so I'll have to survive for about 230 eliminations on Friday before I'm in the money.
Again, I played very few hands. I doubled up early when I was dealt AA under the gun and got all the chips in the middle preflop with the button, who held KK. The aces held up.
A bit later, the big stack at the table limped in and I raised behind him with AsTs. The player two to my left flat called and the big blind came along for the ride. Flop was K Q x with two spades. We checked to the guy on my left and he bet about half the pot. It was folded to me, and I called with my nut flush draw, gutshot nut straight draw and one overcard. About 12 clean outs and a few dirty ones there. The turn was the Jc, giving me the nuts (for now). I checked, my opponent bet about half the pot again and I raised all-in. He called with KQ for top two pair. No K or Q on the river and I doubled up to about 76k.
Our table broke fairly soon after that. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott was at my new table, but he was short-stacked and soon busted out. I got no cards at this table at all, except for JJ just before a break. Player to my left raised to $3,500, I reraised to $15,000 and everyone folded. And that was about it until they called it a day.
I saw quite a few inteesting plays and events but typing like this is killing me so it wil have to wait until I get home.
Busted in the money when my QQ ran into AA. oops. I finished 652nd I believe, but I'm positive the prize is $19,050. I'll take it!
Posted by: Marty | August 05, 2006 at 02:14 AM
Congratulations! Marty,
Hate the coverage onilne. You'd think in this day and age we'd be able to follow our hero card by card. Now, the only list that showed where you placed dropped the places between 650 and 720 sometime last night. Looking forward to hearing tell.
In the coverage of the people "they" think are important, my favorite hand so far was 77 on the flop to trip a 7 in each of 2 hands at the table. Someone was hating that hand.
Posted by: gevin | August 05, 2006 at 03:10 PM