The Poker Mutant will be retiring (mostly) from poker on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the End of Times.

Just a month to go and it was the last live game of November, the $10K GTD NLHE at Final Table. It didn’t go well, which is why I’m writing this instead of still at the club.

In the first level, I raised AX JX, got a call, and was re-raised by the button. I played it conservatively when there were a couple calls of the re-raise, then the hand played out and I was a little irked with myself when the button won the hand with [ax qx[ after the board paired my jack. Which played into my decision to go all in on over a turn raise from the same player on a hand with AX QX and a flop of AX TX TX, only to get myself stacked by KX TX.

Managed to lose half of my rebuy stack before the start of the final level before the add-on break, then got it all in with A♥ 5♥ over two limps, Another player raised all in for a lot more with TX TX and the short stack on my right got in with KX QX and just 75 more chips than me. The flop came down AX KX QX and the guy on my left was elated until a jack on the river made Broadway for the tens.