{"id":326,"date":"2011-11-15T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2011-11-15T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:14:21","slug":"plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Puffmammy 2011\/12 Event #10 (1,800 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A very strange night of poker. Eight players at last night&#8217;s game and despite a blind structure that starts off with 20 minutes of 10\/20 (90 big blinds) there seemed to be some pent-up aggression among the gang. Several all-ins in the first round of the button. I forced DV to re-buy less than fifteen minutes after play began, and brought on two more re-buys in a single hand ten minutes later. WA had barely gotten his re-buy chips settled when he went up against B and was knocked out of the tournament just half an hour after we started.<\/p>\n<p>Things settled down for about forty minutes, the re-buy period ended, then three more players bit the dust over the course of half an hour that included a ten-minute break. We were barely into level 5 and we were already three-handed.<\/p>\n<p>With the blinds still at only 50\/100 and average stacks of more than 7,500, people had plenty of time to pick their spots. Despite my having taken out three players, I was the short stack, because everyone I&#8217;d knocked out was already somewhat depleted. I was bleeding chips to VD looking for my opening. Finally, I hit Broadway on the flop with an <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> and VD called my all-in with two pair. I was sitting pretty on nearly half the chips until I managed to double VD up twice, then it was me on life support. \u00a0Nearly two hours went by between the fourth-place elimination and my eventual fall to DV after three-and-a-half hours of play. Another fifteen minutes and VD fell to him as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Three-and-a-half hours. +43% ROI. 3rd of 8 players.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Only 20 winning days before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanpokertour.com\/tournaments\/prague\/\" target=\"_blank\">EPT Prague<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puffmammy 2011\/12 Event #10 (1,800 chips) A very strange night of poker. 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