{"id":2913,"date":"2018-12-24T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2018-12-24T22:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T06:49:54","slug":"r-day-minus-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 8"},"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>Afternoon downtime on Christmas Eve and I played the\u00a0<strong>Ignition Casino $1K NLHE 6-Max<\/strong>. For half an hour. I lost all but one hand, sliding down from the 5K starting stack to just 1,700 chips, Then I managed to pull out a straight on the river with my pocket sizes holding the bottom end of a four-card straight on the turn and a 5 river. On the very next hand I raised from the small blind with pocket nines, the big stack that had doubled me up re-raised, and I shoved. He called with sixes and four hearts on the board made him a flush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-24-at-3.42.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-24-at-3.42.48-PM.png 806w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-24-at-3.42.48-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-24-at-3.42.48-PM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-24-at-3.42.48-PM-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Played three\u00a0<strong>Ignition Casino NLHE Jackpot Sit-and-Gos<\/strong> after that\u2014all of them just 2x multipliers\u2014and lost the first two, then won the third.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Poker Mutant and I had out traditional Christmas Eve dinner of Dungeness crab (previously-frozen since the season&#8217;s been delayed yet again) while we watched\u00a0<strong>Mr. Magoo&#8217;s Christmas Carol<\/strong> and the best version of the same tale,\u00a0<strong>A Christmas Carol<\/strong> with George C. Scott as Scrooge. Kind of scary watching it to realize that I&#8217;m the age George C. was when that movie came out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/scrooge-scott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/scrooge-scott.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/scrooge-scott-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, I played a couple more Jackpot Sit-and-Gos. Both of them came up with 5x payouts; I lost the first after what seemed like the longest number of hands in one of those I&#8217;ve seen (and a couple of radical chip swaps), then won the second one after coming back from just 1.5bb three-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Seven days to go: $92,286 to target!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/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. Afternoon downtime on Christmas Eve and I played the\u00a0Ignition Casino $1K NLHE 6-Max. For half an hour. 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