{"id":2828,"date":"2018-11-30T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T07:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2018-11-30T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T07:55:36","slug":"r-day-minus-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em>The\u00a0<strong>Poker Mutant\u00a0<\/strong>will be retiring (mostly) from poker\u00a0on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the\u00a0<strong>End of Times<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just a month to go and it was the last live game of November, the\u00a0<strong>$10K GTD NLHE\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong>Final Table<\/strong>. It didn&#8217;t go well, which is why I&#8217;m writing this instead of still at the club.<\/p>\n<p>In the first level, I raised <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"jack of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">J<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, 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 <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"queen of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">Q<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and a flop of <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, only to get myself stacked by <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"king of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"ace of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"five of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">5<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> over two limps, Another player raised all in for a lot more with <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ten of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">T<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the short stack on my right got in with <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"king of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"queen of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">Q<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and just 75 more chips than me. The flop came down <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"ace of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"king of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-x\" title=\"queen of unspecified\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">Q<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the guy on my left was elated until a jack on the river made Broadway for the tens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365-1024x608.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365-1024x608.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365-300x178.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365-768x456.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365-500x297.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/B0CA0BFC-77BD-4E93-934C-8C35A2033CEF-e1543650249365.jpeg 1660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Poker Mutant\u00a0will be retiring (mostly) from poker\u00a0on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the\u00a0End of Times. Just a month to go and it was the last live game of November, the\u00a0$10K GTD NLHE\u00a0at\u00a0Final Table. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-JC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}