today is day 7 of the borgata winter open. so far i've put together a tasty pile of biscuits in two tournaments, but managed to hold a free biscuit giveaway and finish outside the money. i've played pretty well in the other events but had very little go my way.
joe slutler and i met a few heads at the bbar for some sodas around 11 last nite. i was a handful of drinks deep when the amazing RonNasty arrived in AC and met us at the bar. after having a few more cocktails, we decided to go play at $250+30 sit-n-go up in the tourney room. ronnie, steve karp, alex and a few other clowns that play decently were all in the same sng. we had an 8-way hundo last-longer going as well. it probably was pretty poor game selection considering the majority of players in the 250 sngs are major-league monkeys. however, i played and ran well and was able to ship the 1500 for first place and the 8 last longer with no chop. its not much, but it gets me slightly less stuck for the trip. not to mention that winning for the first time in a while is a serious boost to the psyche.
i got to the tourney room about 20 minutes late in today's 350+50. i sat down in the big blind as the cards were being dealt, and looked down at dem birds (AA). a circus clown managed to generously double me up by shoving over my flop check raise with 99 on a 1065 board. so things started well, and i had a good feeling that i was going to make a run. alas, it twas not to be. i lost the majority of my chips in the following hand:
i had about 8500 chips halfway thru the 150-300 level. i limped utg+1 with 910c. another player limped behind me and then a terrible, overaggressive middleaged guy raised to 900 from the bb. both of us called and we saw the flop. the flop game 1075 all spades. the flop was checked through. the turn came an offsuit 8, so i had top pair and was open ended. the first guy checked, and the second guy shoved his stack of 5400 before i acted. when i alerted the dealer that i had yet to act, i watched the shovers reaction and he clearly didn't love his hand. so i checked and let the shove stand. the pf raiser folded, and i decided to go with my read and call of the majority of my stack. my read was spot-on, as he he showed 67 of hearts for a smaller pair and open-ended. the dealer flipped another 7 on the river and pushed the pot to clownshoes.
i doubled up twice after that dirrrty hand but eventually when i had 14 bbs, shoved 77 over a monkey's pf open and was shown 1010 and then shown the door. oh well. i think i am playing the 5hundo deep stack tomorrow, although i may just grind sngs and cash the next several days and then play the 2k on thursday. we shall see.
one other thing. i just made the most marvelous new friend. his name is werewolf and he is just delightful. his picture is up at the top of post. currently, werewolf and i are in negotiations to have live-lookins at the werewolf webcam on this very blog. muggins is stoked!
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