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Joker161:
Next two levels. Still card dead. Best hand for me: raising with AQ, two callers, queen on the flop, I bet and they both fold. That is literally my best hand of the four hours. I had QQ once, but UTG so everyone folds. Same thing with KK once. Probably the only hand of note is when I raised on the button with A7, and the BB calls. Flop is T93 and we both check. Turn is an eight, and it"s a third diamond and my ace is a diamond. He bets, I should have pushed, but I think for a bit and the raise would look less convincing, so I call. The river is an ace and he puts me all-in. I had a bad feeling and folded. Hmm. Anyway, I"m down to about 5k. Something needs to happen otherwise I won"t make the dinner break.

Joker161:
Levels 5 and 6. Still card dead. The odd steal, but no decent hands. I get as low as 3,500 and get it all-in and everyone folds. Sorel Mizzi is now at our table, as is Chris Moorman. In the middle of level 6 I"m on about 4k and there"s a raise, Mizzi calls, there"s a second caller, so I dump my stack in there with K9, hoping they"ll all fold. The raiser folds, Mizzi calls and the other bloke folds. Mizzi has KK. Oops! Flop is Q87. Possible runner runner straight? Turn a nine. Was hoping for a ten or six really. River a nine. BOOM! A bit embarrassing really. Still, I"m up to 9k. Then, a bit later, it gets folded to me in the SB, and I raise to steal and he calls. Annoying because I have 52. Flop is 557. Nice! Checking is too dull, so I bet and he goes all-in. I have to call. He can 86 for the straight draw, but misses, so I"m on 18k! I then get into a tangle with Moorhead when I raise the turn on a straight draw and miss. I bit lairy but that"s the sort of thing you do when you"ve been on 4k for two hours and suddenly you"re on 18k! On the dinner break now and I"m on 15k.

Joker161:
Levels 7 and 8. I continue to get no hands. In an effort not to look like the biggest rock of all time, I am raising the odd hand; some get through, some don"t. By the end of Level 7 I seem to have somehow dribbled down to about 7k. The tightest bloke on the table then raises late, and I push with A3. He has jacks. I hit an ace. Clearly the only way I"m going to survive in this tournament is to get lucky. Same story in Level 8. I have one good hand - QQ. Like last time I"m UTG, and also like last time everyone folds. This is a bloody tough grind! I"m on about 12k now. Not sure what the average is but I"ve got about 20 bigs. Moorman is doing well. Won a few lucky pots.

Joker161:
Level 9 was interesting. I only had one hand, but this time I got paid off. Moorman, as you would expect, raises quite a lot, and is not afraid to fold to a re-raise. So that"s what I did with not much and he folded. A few hands later I get QQ again. I raise to 1400 (blinds are 300/600/75), some old bloke calls and Moorman makes it 4800 from the SB. I don"t take long to stick my stack in, which was about 13k. The old man folds and Moorman calls, a bit reluctantly. He has AJ. Flop has a king and a ten on it, so I now need to avoid another queen as well as an ace, but I get away with it. I"m now up to 31k.

Level 10 is much like the others - no hands. I raise with AT and get re-raised, otherwise the odd steal but mainly a slow bleeding of chips. I get some back on the very last hand of the day. Moorman raises and I call with JT in the BB. Flop is 456 and we both check. Turn is a jack (handy), he bets 2k and I call. The river puts a fourth spade out there and it goes check/check. I pick up a nice pot and bag up 30,700. I have no idea how that relates to the average because the 4pm flight is still going. Back at 2pm tomorrow in the Amazon Room (10pm UK time).

mylesfdo:
nice work there Joe after what looks like u could have easily bled to nothing.....glgl tomorrow or today or whenever!!

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