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Big Club:
Nice cash Joe and vwp... Finally someone I"ve staked this year winning me some money in Vegas! Hope you"re having fun.

Simon

Joker161:
Day 5 - Thursday 2nd July

Woke up at 4.30am. Fairly standard. Perhaps I should just get pissed as a sort of more fun sleeping pill? I decide to go the the Golden Nugget early at about 10am, register and then have breakfast. A good idea because the registration queue is massive at the 11am start. There"s still a queue an hour later.

Half hour levels and 20k in chips. The levels rise to 45 mins after the second break (so after eight levels). It"s the first break, so we"ve had four levels and there"s not much to report. No hands, as usual. I"ve raised to steal occasionally with mixed results. With about 20 minutes to go I get 88 on the SB. There"s a raise and a call so I re-raise and the initial raiser calls. Ace high flop and I check/fold. The very next had I get 77 and just call the raise. Ace high flop and I fold the C-bet. So I"m down to about 17k, but then with five minutes to go there is a limped pot, which is unusual, and I"m in the BB with 86. Flop comes 763. Interesting. We all check. Turn is a 5 for my straight draw. The SB bets and I just call. Everyone else folds. The river is an ace and the SB bets again. I almost folded, but I sensed he was bluffing. He was one of those players capable of doing it. So I called with my pair of sixes and he had Q9. So I"m back up to 19k. Half hour levels fly by after the last two days, so the next two hours could be lively.

Joker161:
Next four levels. Not much for half an hour and then, at last, I get aces. I"m in the BB, so I"m obviously hoping for lots of action before it gets to me. UTG calls, then everyone folds to the button, who calls. Hmm. I raise and UTG re-raises. OK, so he"s probably got kings or queens. Button folds. I re-raise and he goes all in. Snap! He has AK, which is a bit odd. Surely he should avoid getting it all in? Anyway, a slight sweat with a king on the turn, but it"s fine. So I"m up to nearly 40k.

Then the very next hand I get AQ in the SB. There"s a raise, then a re-raise and I just call. Then the BB who has 3400 left after the previous hand goes all in. The re-raiser calls. Flop has an ace on it and I check, so does he. I bet the turn and he calls. I bet the river and he folds. So I win another decent pot and am up to about 50k. Nice!

A bit later there"s a hand with the bloke on my left, a new one who"s replaced the AK man. I raise with TT and he calls. Flop has two aces on it. I know nothing about him but I bet and he calls. Does he have the ace? We check the turn and then I put a small bet on the river. He calls. He has JJ. Hmm. I win a few small pots, then I have a bit of a nightmare just before the break. It"s folded to me in the SB (that"s rare on this table!). I call with A9s. The JJ man raises (blinds 75/300/600) to 2,500. I should just call here, but I decide to raise and plan to raise to 7k, but I have the wrong chip in my hand, and so instead of raising to 7k it ends up being 12k. If you"ve ever played at the GN you"ll know that the colours are similar, but there"s still no excuse. Schoolboy. Anyway, he goes all-in with 24k total. I almost have to call here but I fold because I know I only have three outs. He shows JJ (the JJ man obviously!). So I"m now on 35k, which is still pretty good. Nice that my first relationship with AA worked out so nicely! It looks like there are over 700 runners today, and there were at least 200 on the other two days, so we"ll have a prize pool of over half a million.

Joker161:
The blinds are now 45 minutes. I"m on dinner break now after levels 9, 10 and 11. Still a bit card dead. The only two hands of note where (i) KK UTG, I get two callers, I bet the flop and they both fold; and (ii) AK, I get one caller - JJ Man - and the flop comes JJ7. I C-bet and he calls. Turn is a seven. It all over for me. I check/fold and he shows a jack. He tells me after that he had KJ, so I was all over him pre-flop! Otherwise, it was a real grind with lots of stealing with mixed success. One costly attempt was when a loose bloke raised and another loose bloke called so I re-raised and the first bloke went all-in. Oops! That cost me 6k. Anyway, I"m down to about 18k now and we will be 300/800/1600 after the break, so it might not last much longer. By the way, we are down to about 300 nearly 800 runners, which surprised me. So the average is around 50k.

Joker161:
Levels 12-14 were massive. I try a raise with KQ (getting desperate) and there"s an all-in, so I let it go. I"m down to about 14k and decide to push with 98 UTG. I get called by this idiot that I forgot to mention before. He arrived at the table just before the last break. He was on his phone and tried to get back to hit seat before the first card was dealt but didn"t make it. The dealer said his hand was dead and he started to go a bit mad! The floor is called over and he tells the TD that the dealer is a liar! He gets a one round penalty, which extends past the dinner break. So we are all thinking someone will get his chips (he has quite a lot). So he calls by 98 with TT. Fair enough. I hit the straight on the turn, and the flush on the river for good measure. He"s not happy. Then I get AA in the BB. There"s a raise form a loose bloke, I re-raise and he calls. Flop is J44. I push and he snaps with 66. Suddenly I"m on about 60k! The very next hand I get KK! Mad bloke calls, I raise, he pushes and I snap. He has something like 76. Perhaps he thought he could do the same thing back to me, but the difference then was that I went all-in first, and I was desperate. So now I"m on about 130k!! I"m coasting after that. I call a raise with 44 and hit a set, although don"t get many chips. I re-raise with AK and get a caller. Flop is 345, he checks, I bet and he folds after a think. He tells be he had nines. What was he doing not betting? There were other smaller hands but I can"t remember them all. I"m on something like 160k now. No idea what the average is because the clock is all mucked up because they are trying to put all the finishers from the last two days down too. We are about to play two more levels then back for Day 2 tomorrow. Blimey!

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