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Joker161:
Level 5. 200/400/400. TM got involved with LB and said as he called the raise "I think I am 80% to win this hand." Flop comes T87, LB bets, TM puts in a massive raise. And then there's lots of talk. LB eventually folds AA face up and TM shows 87. TM then starts telling stories about his premonitions, and how he was down to the last 11 in a big tournament and senses he was going to win the next hand as the dealer was shuffling. The bloke to his right raises, and he goes all in blind and the bloke calls. TM then hits the straight flush on the river. Jimmy Hill. Sadly LB got moved soon after that hand. TM limps and so does someone else; I'm in the BB and have K5s. Am I going to see a free flop? Of course not. There's a player who lost a big hand and is down to 5k. So he's pushing loads. Including this hand. It's costing 1000 a round at the moment. I need a hand! I get KQ UTG+2 and it looks massive. I raise and everyone folds! I then get 65 in the BB and all in boy has min raised (he has some chips now). I call. Flop comes 843. Interesting. I bet, he calls. Brick on the turn, check, check. Handy free card, but I miss the river too. I can't get a break! I have just over 18k. By the way, we have nearly 600 runners already and there were over 500 yesterday, so it looks like they made their $1mn guarantee. Last hand of Level 5 I get T3 in the BB and I get to see a flop! And it comes 542. Check, bet, call. Turn is a six! Exciting. I bet and he calls. River is another two and it puts three hearts out there. Check, check. I win a pot!! 22k.

Joker161:
Level 6 is 300/500/500. I get AK! I'm in the SB. There's one raiser, I re-raise and he calls. Low flop, I bet and he tank folds. 24k. Next hand there's a call and I call with 97s. Amazingly no one raises, so I get to see a flop. It's all high cards, but it only cost me 500. Card dead for the rest of the level.   On my second break at the moment.

Joker161:
Level 7. I'm going to record every hand in case I get nothing all Level, just for ****s and giggles. Here goes. 74o. A5o. QJo (already raised - AR). K8o. 62o. 93o. 75o in the BB. I get to look at the flop! Total miss. J6o. KQs on the button. There's a call, I raise to 2k and the BB (TM) calls. Flop has none of my suit and all the cards are 8 or less. Checked round. The turn is low too and the original caller bets. We both fold. Next, AJo, but AR (and the hand gets messy. TM re-raises the raiser with AA, and the raiser calls with 86s! And then it all goes in when the raiser hit his straight. Psychic TM didn't see that one!) Next, I get 99 and am first in raising. Two callers. Flop is seven high. I bet and they both fold. Up to 22k. Totally forgotten the next hand, so it must have been bad. Next, 73o. 93o. TM got his aces cracked again. He's not happy. 96o. A2o in the BB and there's no raise! Totally miss the flop. 85o. T9o AR. A7s AR. Last hand of the level. I get 66. Bloke to my right, who plays quite a few hands, makes it 1500. I decide to re-raise to 4200 and the BB then pushes for 10600. The raiser folds. I know I should fold, leaving me with a playable stack, but I'm getting great odds and he could easily be on AK/AQ. So I reluctantly call and he has QQ. Six on the flop. Phew. I now have 34k.

Joker161:
Level 8. I'll stop all this "telling you every hand" nonsense. Interesting to note that we had 19 hands that level. So about two circuits each level. Is that slow? Anyway, I do an UTG steal with 87s and it gets though. Then I get to see another flop in the BB with Q6o. Flop is 543. Ooh! Checked round. The turn is a nine and puts two flush draws out there. TM bets 5k and I fold. Two on the river! But then when TM bets some other bloke pushes on him. Did he have 76? I got to see a flop in the BB against TM. It was an AKx board so I decided to take a stab at it. Error. He instantly re-raised. 2k down the drain. Next hand I get 87s in the SB. There's a raise and two calls so I call (bit of a punt). I miss, the raiser bets and we all fold. Lots of excitement - the very next hand I get AJ on the button. A loose player raises, I re-raise and he calls. Flop is T98. He checks. I'm tempted to bet but decide to take the the free card. Turn a seven. Nice. He checks, I bet, he folds. I have 36k.

Joker161:
Level 9. We are up to 500/1k/1k. Went for another UTG steal with 22. Only the BB called. The flop was 886. Pretty scary, so I bet and he folds. This UTG thing seems to work, so I try with 75s. Two callers. Flop is T43. Close! I bet but get raised by "a loose player" above. A waste of 6k in chips. Hmm. I raise to steal in LP with K2. The BB calls and we see a king high flop. He checks, I bet and he folds. Then the disaster. A few minutes before the break I go and get my tournament card stamped so I can get $10 off in the Grand Lux. As I come back to the table I see that the dealer is shuffling and I'll get another hand. I get 99 in MP and raise. Someone new to the table re-raises to 6,500. Difficult. Perhaps I should fold here, and I don't like the call, but I decide to make it 13,500. He thinks for a bit and goes all in for 28k. That's 15k more for me and would leave me with about 3k. I properly tank, but decide that I'm more likely to be behind than ahead, and I can just about work with 18k, so I fold. Really annoying. I should have just gone to the Grand Lux.

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