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June 14, 2006

The WWDN Invitational.

For once, I have a reason to do a recap, but only because I didn't get knocked out in 67th place like normal. The upshot of it is that I made a few good plays early, but ran A-Ko into pocket jacks that held up and became the short-stack of the tournament with about $300 in chips left with $30 blinds. As the short-stack, my play was basically down to all-in with anything decent - I doubled up once and then came up with this little gem:

Level IV (50/100) - 2006/06/13 - 21:21:00 (ET)
ArtofSuckout: posts small blind 50
puckett101: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to puckett101 [Js Qd]
Lasner: calls 100
Up4Poker: raises 275 to 375
puckett101: raises 505 to 880 and is all-in
Up4Poker: calls 505
*** FLOP *** [Th 9d 4c]
*** TURN *** [Th 9d 4c] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Th 9d 4c 8d] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
puckett101: shows [Js Qd] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
Up4Poker: shows [Jh As] (a pair of Nines)
puckett101 collected 1910 from pot

That hand all but crippled The Luckbox (who was holding $1465 to my $880), and put me back in the game in a big way.

A couple of hands later, we had this lovely little hand. UTG+1 with A-10o, I raised. Let's see what happened next:

Level IV (50/100) - 2006/06/13 - 21:29:01 (ET)
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to puckett101 [Th Ac]
puckett101: raises 300 to 400
BrainMc: raises 1260 to 1660 and is all-in
puckett101: calls 1260
*** FLOP *** [2s As Ks]
*** TURN *** [2s As Ks] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [2s As Ks Ts] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BrainMc: shows [Js Jh] (a flush, Ace high)
puckett101: shows [Th Ac] (a full house, Tens full of Aces)

So, to recap - my A-10o ran into pocket Jacks with my opponent all-in. I paired my ace to make the best hand at the flop, but my opponent caught a flush at the turn to make a better hand, but the river brought a full house for me to crack the flush which cracked my aces which cracked his jacks. If you followed all that. Chalk up another near double-up - an outrageous one.

My final favorite hand was this little example of double-up domination with the then chip leader who was beating the pants off everyone at the table:

Level VIII (200/400) - 2006/06/13 - 22:36:42 (ET)
puckett101: posts small blind 200
MiamiDon: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to puckett101 [As Jc]
MsJoanne: calls 400
puckett101: raises 2400 to 2800
MsJoanne: raises 2400 to 5200
puckett101: raises 2572 to 7772 and is all-in
MsJoanne: calls 2572
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8s 4h]
*** TURN *** [Qd 8s 4h] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [Qd 8s 4h 6s] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
puckett101: shows [As Jc] (high card Ace)
MsJoanne: shows [Ad Ts] (high card Ace - lower kicker)
puckett101 collected 16069 from pot

Nothing fancy, just a flurry of raising and re-raising that probably should have made someone fold at some point, but I'm not complaining.

After all the dust settled, I made my first final table in the WWDN and placed fourth for a hammer-like payout of $72. Not bad at all.

Posted by puckett at June 14, 2006 08:57 PM

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