A Friday night second for Doctor Straight

[Doctor Straight]

The absence of many of the regulars at the Joe Hachem Deep Stacktournaments at Crown meant that tonight showed great promisefor Doctor Straight in the Jade flagship $110 Friday night game. There were just on 30 runners, right on the famous Jade $3000guarentee. Prize money was set at $1500/$1000/$500. Tonight Iwas Doctor Flush, pushing all in when I had a flush draw, beingcalled, and then hitting the flush on either the turn or the river.Even by my own zany standards I was hitting a ton of hands. WheneverI called an all-in preflop I was usually 70-30 favourite, such asAK versus AT (very early on), JJ vs AJ and so on. I was hardlydrawn out on all night, and I made a significant number of flushes. In the end I only came second, but a flattening of the prizemoneyto $1400/$1100 meant a $1,000 win for me. I like thousand dollarwins. The Monte-Carlo poker plaques made an appearence in tonight'sgame. I was the proud holder of them for much of the game, buthad to hand them over when I lost a massive pot heads up. This is the second time I've come runner-up in the Jade Fridaynight game. My heads up play wasn't fantastic tonight, even thoughI had 70% of the chips for most of the final table I never feltlike it would be smooth sailing to the title. The girl who finishedin the bubble tilted me quite a lot by always mixing her chipstogether in one stack so that I never knew how many chips she hadin her posession. With my first in a January $150 Saturday game, and this second ina $110 Friday February game, I continue to show good form inJade's deepstack $100 plus buyin games.

[Doctor Straight]

The guy who won it had final table alligator blood. Three times whenthere were still 5 players left he was all in shortstacked. In one hand I hit broadway on the turn and he got a 4-flush onthe river. In another hand I had 89 to his 22 allin preflopand by the turn the board was QQT7. That gives me a JT986 for the win (17 outs) and a 7 for the split (3 outs).One time, poker gods, one time...