So another super late night and we go for breakfast/lunch at the Wooden Spoon again. The other degens have left already but while we wait for a table we see Courage and a few others roll past the window with a shopping cart full of beer.
We forgot that there was a warm up SOHE tournament so unfortunately got to the house too late for that but we both jump into the cash games as soon as they start up. I play PLO for about 1/2 hour and manage to partially freeroll the tourney for a $40 win. Then the bbq arrives and it was seriously so good that I was preoccupied with stuffing my face and forgot to take any pictures. Mashed and gravy, baked beans, chilli, cornbread, ribs, brisket, and pulled pork with 4-5 different types of sauce. Heaven!
Then the tourney started which was $120, $20 bounty, with the most amazing authentic Dunes chips which are the complement to the cash set we were playing with in the 1/1 game the previous night. Props to Berg and his incredible chipes.
I start the tourney completely card dead and get all the way to the first break without picking up a single playable hand. I had some opportunities with some baby PP but there was more than one maniac on the table and it was often 3 bets before I even got to act.
Shortly after the break, I have folded my way down to 7k when I decide to call a raise from the button and see a flop 4 or 5 way. The flop comes 225 and it is checked to me. I make a stealish looking potish size bet with A2 and the maniac who raised preflop jams on me. I snap and double through 44. WTF?
Then I return to card dead and mostly fold my way as we break down to 2 tables and then make final table as a low stack with 8k or so, with Grail at lot more healthy at 15k or so. I do pick up a bounty at 2 tables though when finally, out of card dead frustration, raise UTG with A7s, air ball the flop, which gets checked around 3 way and spike a 7 on the turn. I bet out and a super short stacked Paz goes allin for a couple hundred more and he misses his straight draw on the river.
It's the final table!
So anyways at FT a couple guys go out fairly quickly and then Grail goes out when a frustrated player issues the deadly 'fuck it, I call' statement after Grail 3 bet shoves. AK goes down to J9s and Grail hits the rail in 8th.
Not really any super memorable hands but I keep fighting the short stack all the way down to four handed. I do pick up a bounty at some point but I forget who, how or when. 5 handed I pick up AA, shove and get called by jbutler with.........AA. Suxors. Anyways at four handed we pull $100 from 1st, $50 from 2nd and $25 from third to pay 4th place. jbutler goes out in 4th and valiantly offers to deal the rest of final table. From 4 handed on down, no-one can generate any significant advantage and getting to heads up takes more than two hours. So kudos to jbutler. His commentary on the play was pure gold and had us all almost to tears with laughter more than once. 3 handed I 3 bet shove a bet from matill with KK and run into....KK. C'mon twice in one tourney? FFS.
Courage finally gets crippled and then goes out and then matill and I battle it out for over 20 min but eventually a string of bad cards/bad luck and big blinds gets me short. I manage to double up once but shove again the next paint I see with Q4, hit the 4 on the flop but K turn matches matill's hand and IGHN in 2nd place for $680 and 3 $20 bounties.
Some high quality trophies. Thanks Berg! I am now 4/4 in cashing these CT meetup tournies, two 2nds, one 1st and a 4th or 5th place.
The uncapped 1/1 big game was full at this point. Here Grail is getting it in with some crap, I'm sure.
So I sat in the kiddie game and played a 234 high only mixed game and proceeded to get obnoxiously drunk on all the great Smuttynose beers than ssanel brought. Pure awesomeness. Getting drunk was strangely working for me though, even when I would flat out state that the flop hit me pretty hard, for some reason Courage, jbutler, Ben and krafticus didn't seem to believe. We played on to 5 am and finally decided that a few hours of sleep was necessary before checking out. I finish up another couple hundred.
Great times!
Kentucky wins on Sunday while I'm on the plane home to cap a freaking great weekend.
