{"id":2893,"date":"2018-12-19T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T07:41:35","slug":"r-day-minus-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 13"},"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>Headed out to the\u00a0<strong>Portland Meadows $4K GTD<\/strong>. Turnout was, uh, <em>good,<\/em>with more than $11K in the prize pool after all the entries and addons had been tallied. Kind of sparse down there at the bottom if you were in for several buyins (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=393\"><strong>Why Not Rebuy?<\/strong><\/a>) Oh, yeah,\u00a0<em>I<\/em> rebought, but just once\u2014I&#8217;m more or less out of this poker thing in two weeks! Lost on a nut flush draw on the first buyin, then got lucky on the second and beat queens with jacks when I his a set on the turn and knocked out a newplayer who&#8217;d been all in twice on his first orbit at the table with 50bb and squeezed (with the queens) to my button 3-bet. I went out after the break by shoving into top pair&#8217;s large c-bet on a <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-s\" title=\"king of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span> <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-s\" title=\"eight of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">8<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> board with the open-ended Broadway draw. A shorter stack behind me shoved with the nut flush and got there, taking most of my stack, the rest went to top pair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4856-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4856-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4856-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4856-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4856-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Played about 40 minutes of tournament-subsidized\u00a0<strong>$1\/$2 Big O<\/strong> and busted two buyins. I&#8217;m going to have to talk to\u00a0<strong>Jeremy Harkin <\/strong>about my last hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Booked my trip to Las Vegas the last weekend of the year to try to beat my self-imposed year-end goal. Otherwise it&#39;s poker retirement on January 1! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cuttingitclose?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cuttingitclose<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gottahavegoals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gottahavegoals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1075042259043782657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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. Headed out to the\u00a0Portland Meadows $4K GTD. Turnout was, uh, good,with more than $11K in the prize pool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2893\">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":[3,49,110,111,76,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-no-limit-holdem","category-pot-limit-omaha","category-ring-games","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-KF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}