{"id":144,"date":"2011-02-14T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-02-14T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T01:30:48","slug":"144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Be My Poker Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Full Tilt Crestline Gate<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m up, I’m down, I’m up, I’m down, I get J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and get busted by a backdoor flush.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt Flash<\/strong><\/p>\n

285 hands per hour. Is that too many? I play for 16 minutes, I hit 17.5BB\/100 but I’ve been underwater most of the time.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt Mach 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never manage to get above even over 12 minutes and a double-ended flush draw on the flop goes nowhere to knock me out.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt Midnight Madness! (1,500 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

My first hand and I can’t resist going all-in with K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a flop of 6d 4c 5d]. Of course no more diamonds show and the best I have is a match to my ten on the river against pocket queens. I buy in with another entry and try to play it a bit close to the vest but when people are beating your K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> with 6<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, it’s time to hang it up. OK, maybe I deserved to lose pushing with my 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> board, but not to J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt $2,500 KO Guarantee (2,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had a couple of successes but I was determined not to suffer the fate of my brash Madness! attempts. Unfortunately, after flopping a king-high straight in my first half-hour the cards dried up and I was blinded off from 4,000 down to about 2,500 over most of the course of my 100 minutes of play. A large stack with A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> put paid to my A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> and another player’s A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> in one swoop.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt $10,000 Rush Guarantee (1,500 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got into this half an hour in, at the 30\/60 level but half the field had been eliminated already. That made the top stacks a bit difficult to catch but potentially my standing was closer to the money. I think that was probably an illusion though. Got knocked out with 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> in my hand and A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the flop. Guy to my left had 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> for the nut flush.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt Step 1 18-Player<\/strong><\/p>\n

First out. Straight got me.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Full Tilt Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow and steady wins the Step 2 ticket. I need to figure out what I’m doing here that I’m not doing elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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