A day (and a half) off...

2010-06-17

Mell's restless sleep has really been keeping me awake, so Thursday I didn't start my session until 7am or so. She woke up around 8.30am and said she was starting to feel better and was interested in getting out of the house for a bit in the afternoon, so I stopped registering and figured we would end up heading somewhere for lunch.

On the contrary, I ended up running deep in the Stars 55/40k. It was a relatively soft field with two tables to go, however by the time we got to the final table I had the worst table draw, with (aggro) YanniYankievich, the chip leader and a shortstacked dave798111 to my left, which meant my 18bb was pretty much a raise/call stack since I had no chance of taking anything down preflop. Despite this, I flipped well a couple of times and ended up being the chipleader four handed. Around this point I had a decent rail going and managed to fall foul of Pokerstars chat policies yet again via a cheerful rendition of Like A Boss, so my chat is gg'ed for another month lol.

Three handed the chip lead went back and forth a bit, but one player was a huge donator and terrible and the other one was a breakeven aggro, so I kind of felt like if I could get chips off the weaker guy I could probably close it out for the win. Anyway, the following hand went down and I bust third for just under 5k:

PokerStars Game #45615260708: Tournament #316010683, $50+$5 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVII (12500/25000) - 2010/06/17 14:23:51 AEST [2010/06/17 0:23:51 ET]

Table '316010683 66' 9-max Seat #3 is the button

Seat 1: risk2Dupside (630360 in chips)

Seat 3: AAmaggie (1222372 in chips)

Seat 7: BOSS_SPAIN (970268 in chips)

risk2Dupside: posts the ante 2500

AAmaggie: posts the ante 2500

BOSS_SPAIN: posts the ante 2500

BOSS_SPAIN: posts small blind 12500

risk2Dupside: posts big blind 25000

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to risk2Dupside {id:71}{id:72}

AAmaggie: folds

BOSS_SPAIN: raises 50000 to 75000

risk2Dupside: calls 50000

*** FLOP *** {id:73}{id:74}{id:75}

BOSS_SPAIN: bets 75000

risk2Dupside: raises 110400 to 185400

BOSS_SPAIN: raises 707368 to 892768 and is all-in

risk2Dupside: calls 367460 and is all-in

Uncalled bet (339908) returned to BOSS_SPAIN

*** TURN *** {id:73}{id:74}{id:75} {id:79}

*** RIVER *** {id:73}{id:74}{id:75}{id:79} {id:84}

*** SHOW DOWN ***

BOSS_SPAIN: shows {id:85}{id:86} (a straight, Three to Seven)

risk2Dupside: shows {id:71}{id:72} (two pair, Aces and Fives)

BOSS_SPAIN collected 1263220 from pot

risk2Dupside finished the tournament in 3rd place and received $4705.00.

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 1263220 | Rake 0

Board {id:73}{id:74}{id:75}{id:79}{id:84}

Seat 1: risk2Dupside (big blind) showed {id:71}{id:72} and lost with two pair, Aces and Fives

Seat 3: AAmaggie (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 7: BOSS_SPAIN (small blind) showed {id:85}{id:86} and won (1263220) with a straight, Three to Seven

...and then headed out for late lunch at Provenance on Smith Street around 3pm.

I also just found out that with my scores this week I've moved up to #11 spot on pocketfives for Australia - top ten is a short-term goal of mine and so hopefully with a bit more effort I can slide on in there and settle into a top ten spot. I think the top five will be harder to crack based on the fact that I generally play midstakes, but I'm sure once I move up a bit I will create some more goals for myself in this regard.

Today I had a dental appointment so took the morning off for breakfast at Cavallero beforehand, otherwise I figure I'm going to be hungry with a numb mouth all day. I had to get a filling on the top left and re-do a filling on the bottom right, which meant two needles at opposite ends of my face, and has made me feel completely unco all day lol. I cooked up an awesome massaman curry (lamb cutlets, eggplant, pumpkin, potato, beans), as I tend to do on Friday afternoons, sat down for a short session at 100nl sixmax and dropped a buyin, and here I am

Tomorrow I'm going to get a full day of tournaments in, and then Sunday Mell and I are going to the Australian Dance Awards at the State Theatre and probably a late dinner, which should be fun.