Slackin'
Yes, it's been a month and a half, 2 Dirty River events, Dead Money Open, Dirty River Championship, and yesterday's benefit tournament for Kayla Dumas.
So, we might as well begin with the first of them all, the Dead Money Open. Not much to say about this tournament as all but a very few, and all the regulars, got skunked. First big hand I saw was Jareb's KK getting tangled up with AA preflop. Jareb was out the door. In the meantime, in other rooms, Scott lost to flopped set over set, Seth lost with Jacks full on the flop to Kings full after KK caught up after the money went in. Pete lost after the first break with AA to QQ, Horner lost later in tournament with QQ vs 99. Overall, a fabulous day. My sob story? A preflop raise from 300 to 900 and I call with 88 and we get another caller to see a 3 way flop. Flop is 842, 2 clubs. Original raiser leads for 1800 and I move in for another 4,650. After a loooooong deliberation on the raiser's part, he calls with 99c. Turn Ac, River Kc, and I'm out the door. UGH. I felt I was playing so well too, that I really didn't need a call, although anytime you're better than 9-1, you obviously want that call.
Next tournament played was the first 1.5 pt event of the year for DRP. Again, we got over 40 to show for the event, and when it was all said and done, Fishhooks bested Tallywacker, who was by far the quietest at the final table, heads up with K6 vs Tally's JJ. It was just that sort of day for Fishhooks.
But of course the big show happened another week later as the Dirty River Championship went off. Fireworks happened immediately as Jelly reraised Rubycube preflop to 2000. Ruby made the call and the flop came T high, both checked and a J came off on the turn. The money made it's way in and Ruby spiked a J to make a set of J's to best Jelly's pocket AA. Next to take a huge hit was Bin2win when he made a lower flush against AceTen. Bin flopped open-ended and a flush draw and bet only to be reraised big by AceTen with 2 overs and a flush draw. The turn card brough the club and they got it all in. Big Slick busted with TT to Kramer's KQ which caught 4 diamonds and Rubycube made a move on Kramer with a flush draw, but Kramer had unfortunately caught two pair Aces and sixes. Cowboy wasn't able to make it and Peanut Butter was the only one to bust at the 2nd table before we combined to the final table.
Kramer, Blondie, Tim F, Cornhusker, NosCat, KTK, AceTen, General, Texas, and Lefty were our final 10. Because of all the action on the one table, those players had a decent chip advantage vs some of the others. General, Texas, and Cornhusker were all extremely short and in very short succession, General, Texas, and Cornhusker went down. Cornhusker's hand, although not a lot of chips, was dramatic when his AT couldn't catch Lefty's KK - because of not just one, but two more on the flop. After these bustouts, the stacks were all very deep, with the chip leader being Tim F around 55K, followed by Kramer at 37K, with AceTen, Lefty, Noscat, and KTK all in the 25K to 30K range. That all changed in a hurry when Blondie raised UTG and Kramer reraised from the big blind and Blondie moved in. Kramer called with AA and Blondie had KK. No help came and Blondie busted big in 7th place. All of a sudden bubble play began in a hurry ... but would last for nearly 3 hours.
After about 1 hour of bubble play, the chip stacks began to look dramatically different, and told an interesting tale of how play was beginning to unfold. In order around the table: Kramer - 84K, Tim F - 36K, NosCat - 19K, KTK - 18K, AceTen - 23K. It became an all-in fest between NosCat and KTK for the next hour until KTK was eliminated on the bubble. By this time, Lefty had made a serious move to 104K in chips during bubble play. At this point, play progressed fairly quickly again because of the huge disparity in chips. NosCat would be next out, followed by AceTen, and finally by Tim F.
Kramer and Lefty worked out a deal that both will be playing $1500+ events, including Kramer the $1500 WSOP event.
Good Luck to both those and Tim F, KTK, and NosCat with their HPT/similar seats.
So, we might as well begin with the first of them all, the Dead Money Open. Not much to say about this tournament as all but a very few, and all the regulars, got skunked. First big hand I saw was Jareb's KK getting tangled up with AA preflop. Jareb was out the door. In the meantime, in other rooms, Scott lost to flopped set over set, Seth lost with Jacks full on the flop to Kings full after KK caught up after the money went in. Pete lost after the first break with AA to QQ, Horner lost later in tournament with QQ vs 99. Overall, a fabulous day. My sob story? A preflop raise from 300 to 900 and I call with 88 and we get another caller to see a 3 way flop. Flop is 842, 2 clubs. Original raiser leads for 1800 and I move in for another 4,650. After a loooooong deliberation on the raiser's part, he calls with 99c. Turn Ac, River Kc, and I'm out the door. UGH. I felt I was playing so well too, that I really didn't need a call, although anytime you're better than 9-1, you obviously want that call.
Next tournament played was the first 1.5 pt event of the year for DRP. Again, we got over 40 to show for the event, and when it was all said and done, Fishhooks bested Tallywacker, who was by far the quietest at the final table, heads up with K6 vs Tally's JJ. It was just that sort of day for Fishhooks.
But of course the big show happened another week later as the Dirty River Championship went off. Fireworks happened immediately as Jelly reraised Rubycube preflop to 2000. Ruby made the call and the flop came T high, both checked and a J came off on the turn. The money made it's way in and Ruby spiked a J to make a set of J's to best Jelly's pocket AA. Next to take a huge hit was Bin2win when he made a lower flush against AceTen. Bin flopped open-ended and a flush draw and bet only to be reraised big by AceTen with 2 overs and a flush draw. The turn card brough the club and they got it all in. Big Slick busted with TT to Kramer's KQ which caught 4 diamonds and Rubycube made a move on Kramer with a flush draw, but Kramer had unfortunately caught two pair Aces and sixes. Cowboy wasn't able to make it and Peanut Butter was the only one to bust at the 2nd table before we combined to the final table.
Kramer, Blondie, Tim F, Cornhusker, NosCat, KTK, AceTen, General, Texas, and Lefty were our final 10. Because of all the action on the one table, those players had a decent chip advantage vs some of the others. General, Texas, and Cornhusker were all extremely short and in very short succession, General, Texas, and Cornhusker went down. Cornhusker's hand, although not a lot of chips, was dramatic when his AT couldn't catch Lefty's KK - because of not just one, but two more on the flop. After these bustouts, the stacks were all very deep, with the chip leader being Tim F around 55K, followed by Kramer at 37K, with AceTen, Lefty, Noscat, and KTK all in the 25K to 30K range. That all changed in a hurry when Blondie raised UTG and Kramer reraised from the big blind and Blondie moved in. Kramer called with AA and Blondie had KK. No help came and Blondie busted big in 7th place. All of a sudden bubble play began in a hurry ... but would last for nearly 3 hours.
After about 1 hour of bubble play, the chip stacks began to look dramatically different, and told an interesting tale of how play was beginning to unfold. In order around the table: Kramer - 84K, Tim F - 36K, NosCat - 19K, KTK - 18K, AceTen - 23K. It became an all-in fest between NosCat and KTK for the next hour until KTK was eliminated on the bubble. By this time, Lefty had made a serious move to 104K in chips during bubble play. At this point, play progressed fairly quickly again because of the huge disparity in chips. NosCat would be next out, followed by AceTen, and finally by Tim F.
Kramer and Lefty worked out a deal that both will be playing $1500+ events, including Kramer the $1500 WSOP event.
Good Luck to both those and Tim F, KTK, and NosCat with their HPT/similar seats.
posted by Corey Eslinger at 12:59 PM
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