{"id":769,"date":"2014-10-06T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2014-10-06T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:06:06","slug":"out-of-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busted the Final Table $20K just short of the money on Friday night, had a good run early in the tournament, stacked the player on my left\u00a0twice, got down to three tables with an average stack and went card dead for a while, then shoved A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> from the BB over a big stack’s 2.5x opening raise with ~10BB and ran into 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, who called after thinking about it for a while. No Tulalip for me, but I heard they got more than 300 entries.<\/p>\n

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Six-and-a-half hours. 22nd of 124 entries. -100% ROI.<\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday, Encore ran an $18K guarantee. I enforced my self-ban on re-buys and add-ons, and was doing reasonably well through the first three hours. Picked up J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG, raised, and a guy on the far end of the table who was talking to his buddy behind him threw out a call of the BB. He argued with the dealer briefly about whether he needed to put in the full raise amount, then tossed in the 5K. Queen-high un-coordinated flop, I c-bet, he raised me, I shoved, and he turned over Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, then hit a 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn. Again, I lose even with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, although I did not lose the minimum as Kyle Keranen did with his A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> v. Portland WSOP sensation Curtis Rystadt<\/a>‘s Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

I did manage to pick up my buy-in in about 90 minutes after the game, playing 25\u00a2\/50\u00a2 NLHE at Cowboy’s Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you haven’t already seen it, I’m supposed to be on the live call-in\u00a0Limon Show Podcast at CrushLivePoker.com<\/a> tonight at 6pm Pacific. We’ll be talking about my Deadspin<\/a> article on tournament ROI and related subjects, the backlash to said article<\/a>, and possibly a little about the bizarre coincidence that we both grew\u00a0up in Eugene<\/a>. Limon was a guest himself on the 2+2 Pokercast<\/a> a few weeks back. I don’t know if there’s a way for folks without a sub to CrushLivePoker to check out the show, but check around for promo codes for a free month.<\/p>\n

Coming up:<\/em>\u00a0I should have another article for PokerNews.com soon. After the podcast tonight, I might try the HOP (NLHE, PLO, Pineapple) tournament<\/a>\u00a0at Big Stacks Poker Club<\/a> (a new venue for me), then the next big things are a tournament at Final Table with a $10K guarantee for first place on the 18th<\/a>, and the Encore Poker Series V running from the 23rd to the 26th<\/a>, with a total of $125K in guarantees in four events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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