{"id":125,"date":"2011-01-29T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-01-29T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T22:53:19","slug":"the-nines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"The Nines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could I have forgotten? During the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=122\" target=\"_blank\">$5K guarantee KO game<\/a> I was dealt <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-c\" title=\"nine of clubs\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">9<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2663<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"nine of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">9<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the small blind (15\/30). I was the second-largest chip stack at the table, with about 4,500. Four of the six others were between 570 and 1,900. Short-stacked UTG went all-in for 570, the button called (leaving 1,070 behind), and I called. The flop was <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-d\" title=\"six of diamonds\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">6<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2666<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-d\" title=\"king of diamonds\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2666<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-s\" title=\"nine of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">9<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Pocket kings had me beat, but I wasn&#8217;t too worried. \u00a0I thought I&#8217;d see how far the button was willing to go on his own, and checked. The button checked and the turn card was <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-s\" title=\"six of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">6<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Now pocket 6s also had me but I went all-in for almost 4K. I guess the button didn&#8217;t think I had much. He called. Then the <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-d\" title=\"nine of diamonds\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">9<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> showed up on the river. When the cards went over, the small stack had <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-c\" title=\"king of clubs\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2663<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-d\" title=\"ten of diamonds\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> for a higher two pair than the <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"ten of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-c\" title=\"ace of clubs\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> of the bigger stack, but neither beat my two pairs of nines. Two bounties and 3,880 chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I have forgotten? During the $5K guarantee KO game I was dealt 9\u2663 9\u2665 in the small blind (15\/30). I was the second-largest chip stack at the table, with about 4,500. 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