{"id":391,"date":"2011-12-17T06:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-12-17T06:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T14:42:41","slug":"feat-of-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Feat of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Players Club $250 Guarantee (2,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the first break in this game, I had one-sixth of the chips in play, with three tables still running. That slipped a bit, but by the time the final table was made, my portion was back up: to half of all the chips. You’d think that with an advantage like that at nine players I could pull out something better than a third-place finish, but an over-reliance on small pairs seems to be killing my end strategy. Something to correct.<\/p>\n

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Three-and-a-half hours. +225% ROI. 3rd of 24 players.<\/em><\/p>\n

Aces Players Club $1,500 Guarantee (5,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This could have gone so much better. I was seat 4, up about 1,000 chips in BB holding [td\u00a0th] in the first level of the game. A couple of players limped, seat 9–who’d just rebought the previous hand–raised, then seat 1, who’d been hit hard, went all-in for about 1,800. Action folded to me and I shoved, getting a call (for less) from 9. Seat 9 flipped 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and groaned when he saw my higher pair. The rebuy stack showed A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I was in he lead with the best hand, but not favored to win, and two aces on the flop with a king on the river for the best-possible full house solidified my position. I busted out, rebought, and busted again to be the first man out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thirty-five minutes. -100% ROI. 34th of 34 players.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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