{"id":2445,"date":"2018-11-24T00:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2018-11-24T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:13:24","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Decks: Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another unpublished piece from earlier this year that I thought was a lot less finished than it was. This is the kind of thing that happens when you work full-time, play a lot of poker, and spend hours each week writing and researching. Stuff falls through the cracks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Last Friday night’s\u00a0Final Table First Friday $20K GTD NLHE<\/strong> went pretty well for me, a nice continuation cash for the year and a good kickoff to the month before this year\u2019s\u00a0World Series of Poker\u00a0<\/strong>season, which starts in just over three weeks. I played with no intention of rebuying.<\/p>\n

I almost put my intention to the test when I played 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> from the BB (short story: let my aces get cracked by 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in a $600 tournament at the Venetian six or seven years ago) and called a 3x raise with one other caller. The flop’s 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> all red. The original raiser bet 1,200 and the caller goes all in for 2,900, I shove 10K or so, the original raiser folds, I’m up against A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the ace hits on the river.<\/p>\n

Made it up to 60K after I busted a new player\u2019s kings with 4<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> just after the first break, then there was a long, slide down to 40K by second break.<\/p>\n

\"\"Five and a half hours in I got into a three-way hand with tens holding against nines and K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I had over three-and-a-half times the average stack with 36 left and 18 paying.<\/p>\n

I was moved three times before the final table, with my last couple of tables featuring a very nice, slightly tipsy woman from Texas who claimed she didn’t have much experience playing poker, since it’s not legal there. She was very gregarious and doing extremely well despite her claims of inexperience. She made a couple of big calls that put her in flips (which she won), before losing a big chunk of her stack in a hand where she was ahead 70\/30. She did have a tendency to risk more of her lead than might have been prudent.<\/p>\n

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Final Table @FinalTablePDX<\/a> in the monthly First Friday $20K GTD pic.twitter.com\/7UsX92rmyS<\/a><\/p>\n

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) May 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n