Another Close Call…

Reasonably proud of this one, as I survived desparation mode with a few key double ups heading for the money bubble and hit the cash positions in sixth place. I worked my way up the ladder into the top three and took a nice chip lead with a massive suckout after I made a steal attempt with K8o and was priced in to call a shove from a short stack with AA. K on the flop, K on the river and I was in first with 11 remaining. I was still in the lead at the final table, albeit not by much, but went card dead or had a mediocre hand facing a raise in front of me. Other than a few steal attempts, nothing much was happening. Then I lost 2/3 of my stack with KJo vs. KJs when we both flopped second pair, but he rivered the flush. After that it was off to the races with AJo vs. 88, but no help was forthcoming and I went quietly away with $686 and change.

The buy in for this event is a little steep for my budget, but I played it yesterday and went fairly deep. I would have been in a sweet postion in that one too, but made the mistake of getting AA in vs. QQ pre flop. My 4-1 favorites are just like chum in the water for whoever I'm up against. I don't know what's worse; that hand or the two coolers. Things were looking snazzy there too, as I won a small pot with KK and drew KK two hands later. I raised and got called, then we got it all in on a low-card rainbow flop and my opponent flipped over AA. Two hands later and short stacked in the blinds, I found AK and ran that straight into AA. So, over the space of five hands I had KK twice and AKo once, and ran into AA two times. Awesome.

Off to the beach. Back in a week with a decent and growing bankroll. May have to hit at least a couple of the BBT events even though I have no realistic chance of doing anything vis a vis the rankings or the ToC; short of winning one of the damn things that is.

Oh, and my car is ready to roll so it's time to send the piece of shit Chevy back to Enterprise. I keep hearing that American quality is back and maybe that's true with Buick, but if the car I'm driving is any indication Chevy has a long way to go.

Adios!