{"id":2912,"date":"2018-12-23T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2018-12-23T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T07:40:21","slug":"r-day-minus-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Poker Mutant\u00a0<\/strong>will be retiring (mostly) from poker\u00a0on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the\u00a0End of Times<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Family obligations have tended to keep me from playing the\u00a0Ignition Casino $100K GTD NLHE<\/strong> on Sundays. There’s stuff to do to get the house ready for our Sunday family dinner\u2014even though I’m, thankfully, not doing the cooking\u2014and I don’t like to buy into a tournament of that size late, or be playing it while we’ve got company, even if it’s company that’s here every week.<\/p>\n

But my father’s out of town for the holidays this week and I’m down to the wire on my $100K-before-the-end-of-the-year-or-bust plan (only $93K to go!) so I decided to play it this week.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that I got aces twice in 90 minutes (about 5 times better than the normal distribution) I was under the starting stack, after having to lay down a 3-bet hand of A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> and a few other attempts to get some chips. Still I was nearly 40bb deep when I got A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the big blind, with a dead small blind. UTG min-raised, everyone folded to me, and I pushed it up to 2K, which he called. The all-spade flop was unpleasant, but I had top-top and overbet the pot by a thousand or so going all in. UTG called with both a gutshot straight\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>a spade draw, and booth of them got there in sequence. I was marginally ahead when the money went in, but I was getting a chop at best after the turn.<\/p>\n

And that’s the way the make-a-fortune cookie crumbles.<\/p>\n

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I played the\u00a0Ignition Casino $5K GTD NLHE\u00a0<\/strong> after the guests left. 642 entries. I doubled up and then some in the middle stage but went pretty card dead as small stacks were shoving toward the bubble, and lost a lot of ground. I was under 10bb when I picked up queens on the button and we were on the last couple spots before the bubble. A big stack in early position raised, I shoved, he had aces! And he hit an ace on the flop! I finished in 109th place. 108 places paid.<\/p>\n

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