{"id":2916,"date":"2018-12-27T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2018-12-27T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T05:14:05","slug":"r-day-minus-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 5"},"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>We were at the final table of the\u00a0<strong>Final Table $1K GTD NLHE Bounty<\/strong> last night at midnight, and at the time I didn&#8217;t know if I was going to be coming out a slight loser (after taking a couple of bounties) or if I was going to make it into the money.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d gotten to the club early in the fourth level and done well enough to be above average when we got to the break and the add-on. I was one of the top three stacks at the table when a big hand developed that included one of the other big stacks\u2014who&#8217;d doubled up another player with a rather loose call in an effort to pick up a bounty\u2014a short stack went all in, I was planning to call with my <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>, but the other player shoved his not-insignificant pile of chips and I folded. An ace on the flop would have given me the win and at least two bounties, as well as crippling or eliminating the big stack. Sign.<\/p>\n<p>Got to the final table as one of the short stacks (as usual) and waited things out, shoved a few times without getting called, eventually getting through the bubble and down to four players, losing an ace-king v. queens race to get knocked out in fourth. Three bounties.<\/p>\n<p>Played a brief\u2014I mean 2-minute\u2014Zone cash session.<\/p>\n<p>$92,052 to go before 1 January.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4868-e1545930793397-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4868-e1545930793397-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4868-e1545930793397-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4868-e1545930793397-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4868-e1545930793397-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/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. We were at the final table of the\u00a0Final Table $1K GTD NLHE Bounty last night at midnight, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2916\">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":[3,49,110,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-no-limit-holdem","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-L2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}