Weekend

Thursday I woke up and was very anxious about a charity tournament that I was hosting. I say I was hosting, but there were plenty of bigger names there. I showed up a hour early to help out however I could. Lisa Wheeler had everything looking good. All I had to do was sign a couple things for prizes and for poker fans. The buy in was $220 with $30 rebuys for the first hour. I pushed all in about 15 times never having the best of it. I was in for 700ish and minimum chips going into the 2nd hour. I ran my stack up pretty nicely as I got paid off with all my big hands. I eneded up making the final table, but ran my QQ into QJdd for a chip lead stack. I was actually mad at first, but it didnt take long to forget about it. The tourny raised over 11K and saw the likes of Eric Baldwin, Elky, Lisa Hamilton, Cody Slaubaugh, Pam Brunson, Chainsaw, Lacey Jones, Lee Watkinson, Marsha Waggoner, and Chip and Karina Jett. In addition a bunch of cash game regulars came out to lend there support. Thank you Paul, Tom, Tony, Mitch, Teddy and anyone else I didnt see or am forgeting. On top of all that they had a silent auction. Of which there was a bat signed by the entire 2004 Boston Red Sox up for grabs. I won it on a steal and will be displaying it proudly in my game room.
On Friday and Saturday I did my best to make a dent into my to do list. Though I didnt get all I wanted to done, it felt good to start.
Sunday was the online slate for me. The early tournys saw me squeak into the money in some spots but no real FT sweats. In the later half I made a run in the 100r on PS only to see my biggish stack crushed by QQ vs my AK. My last sweat was the FT mulligan. I never had a bunch of chips, but always seemed to win a flip when I got down under 15BB. At the final table my 99 destroyed KK with a 9 on the river giving me a decent stack down the stretch. I had 3/4 of the chips when I got heads up against a guy who was playing pretty nitty. I began to pressure him with a lot of preflop betting. With this style I would expect me to get it in bad a lot, but some how I had him all in with the following hands A7 vs A3, 22 vs AK, and A5 vs A10. The A7 vs A3 was the worst one. The flop came 865 almost assuring there would be no chop and giving me plenty of nut redraws. Somehow a blank and a 3 hit the board. I ended up getting it in with A7 vs his Q5 for about 30% of the chips in play. But the board was 952QA giving him two pair. It was still a nice score, but getting beat when you feel you have a huge edge is never fun.

Justin "robert07" Young