{"id":1518,"date":"2016-06-03T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:10:23","slug":"w-day-plus-1-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"W-Day Plus 1: Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"palazzo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

No\u00a0exhaustive post today. I’m not exhausted, either, after getting my first good night’s rest since leaving Portland.<\/p>\n

Didn’t do much in the early part of the day. I had been scheduled to cover the first day of the Colossus, but due to a couple of live reporters wanting to play the Casino Employees event, that went on my ticket, so I had about 36 hours until my next event, the afternoon flight of the second day of entries.<\/p>\n

I did head over to a computer shop here in town to get some RAM for my trusty MacBook. I’d intended to upgrade the memory for a while. It’s one of the late 2008 aluminum-body models that came with 2GB of RAM, which was perfectly fine a couple of years ago, when I started to do some 3D modeling in Cinema 4D for a Civil War battlefield<\/a> visitor’s center, but the newer operation system upgrades have made it grind to a halt just opening Safari. A very nice young tech named Jessica at Century 23 here in Vegas<\/a> had the 4GB modules I needed in stock and popped them in for me in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n

Went back to the house, rested for a while, then headed out to the Venetian for the 7pm bounty tournament (Deepstack Extravaganza #14). I chipped up quickly, knocked out an angry old man who was like a tall version of Portland’s Sleepy Don, took another bounty from a kid with a Muckleshoot cap, then lost a race against a female player from Portland, and doubled up another player when I called his all-in with A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> board. He showed K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I got an ace on the turn, then the jack on the river took a big chunk of my chips. My final downfall was when I shoved K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> from the button and Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> called all in with a shorter stack from the small blind. I had him covered by 600 chips at 800\/1.6K\/200, he caught a jack on the flop and stayed ahead. I went out the next hand.<\/p>\n

Thought I might try my hand at the 1\/2 Big O game. There was a seat open and I was able to sit without waiting. I won a little hand that put me ahead after twenty minutes of folding and paying blinds, making top and bottom pair on the flop, then top two pair on the turn and a full house on the river. Then:<\/p>\n

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A\u2666\ufe0f9\u2666\ufe0fK\u2663\ufe0fQ\u2663\ufe0fA\u2660\ufe0f falls short on T\u2666\ufe0f9\u2665\ufe0f6\u2666\ufe0f 3-way allin on flop to turned set of jacks.<\/p>\n

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) June 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n