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Yup, I had a great time as well, despite being the victim of the horrible suckout described in gusmahler's post. A few more highlights:
1) In the 1-1-2 NL game, Dan raises PF and Andy calls. Flop comes Q7x. I don't recall the exact action on the flop, but I believe Andy bet, Dan raised, and Andy called. Another 7 comes on the turn and Andy says instantly "all in", and Dan, even more instantly calls. Andy's hand hits the muck even before Dan can show his QQ.
2) Still in the 1-1-2, Andy open pushes UTG for about $125. MP1 (sorry, never did find out who that was), and goes all in for about $200, and Dan goes all in for about $250. Andy shows AQ, MP1 shows JJ and Dan has KK. But Andy catches 1 Q on the flop, and a second one on the turn to scoop the biggest pot of the night.
3) 6-handed in early stages of the tournament (we started with 3 tables), I open raise w/ QT. BB calls. Flop is TTx. BB calls my continuation bet, and when K comes on the turn, he checkraises me. I just call. River is another T, and I double up against BB's AK.
4) Here's the nomination for worst played hand of the night. Cash game, I pick up Kh Kd in UTG+1. Dan on my right limps. I'm about to raise, but thought I detected that Garland on my left was going to raise and so I overlimped, planning to reraise. Garland promptly mucks (d'oh) and three more players come in for the ride (double d'oh). Flop is Ten-high all clubs, Dan bets $7, about 1/2 the pot I think. I hate monosuit boards,especially in NL and out of position, and right or wrong chose to just call and decide what to do when the turn came. The turn was a 4th club (d'oh), which got checked around. The river pairs the bottom pair, and it gets checked around again. I flip up my KK then slap my forehead when I realise that my hand is Kc Kh, not Kd Kh. Someone's eloquent "what the f-u-ck?!" perfectly captioned the moment.
I agree with Garland's sentiment that this should be more often than an annual event. I'll look forward to attending the next one!
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Had a great time, thanks everyone for coming. Thanks Jim for bringing the extra table.
Some details to clean up:
In the hand between me and dan. I raised opened for 6 w/ AK, he made it 16 on the button. Flop was 88x. I checkcalled 20. Turn Q. I checkraised all in over his 30 bet. He tanked for about the same amount of time it took my cards to hit the muck. REBUY!!
The AQ hand.
I was messing around saying that I'm just going to start pushing everything when the cards were being dealt. So I thought it would be funny for me to jam 140 bucks into the 1/1/2 blinds. Gergery calls pretty quickly and I am hoping my ace is live. Dan gets a little gleam in his eye and says very clearly "I CALL" and I'm hoping he has KK not AA. When the cards are turned, I'm delighted to have gotten myself in such an almost +ev situation:
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=1589221
pokenum -h ac qc - jc jh - kh ks
Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ac Qc 370505 27.03 994540 72.55 5709 0.42 0.272
Jc Jh 234293 17.09 1130752 82.49 5709 0.42 0.172
Ks Kh 760247 55.46 604798 44.12 5709 0.42 0.556
So, in the long run, my jam only costs me about 8 bucks (less 27% of the $5 in blinds).
I also like the fact that I tripled up the Pizza money.