I just settled all my lawsuits, F*&%$# you D.A.D.I

Barely made it to the final table. Literally played one hand there. Was in the big blind with pocket 3's when a button raised my blind and I moved all in with my pair (I was big time short stack at that point) he flopped a queen and the rest, as they say, was history.

Things started fairly well for me. I picked up pocket aces on my second hand to launch me to the top five spots in chips. I dropped some along the way with some misplaced aggression here and there, but lifted a huge one of Hoyazo with a well timed pot-size reraise bluff on a ragged board and a post oak bluff on the turn. He might have more details about the hand, with pictures included, but I think my hand at that point was KJ high. I also sucked out huge with pocket tens against pocket queens when I flopped my set. Opponent was Aussie-someone? I’m sorry, I’m really terrible with names and I should really start taking better notes during these things.

My first ass kicking happened when I ran pocket queens preflop into Bone Daddy’s pocket Aces. I failed to improve and that pot cost me big. I was middle of the pack by then and I was sunk to bottom feeder status when I ran into President Lee and rockets again!!

I was now bottom third, if not last, and I had to rely on steals and a few suckouts to give me back a decent stack. The final nail in my coffin happened on the following hand: I pick up 10-8s on the button and I raise pot. Mookie, one of the tournament chip leaders at this point, calls from the small blind. Flop comes Q-10-5. Mookie checks it, I bet pot and he reraises pot which also puts me all-in. I tank. Mookie had been reraising me a lot lately, making it really hard for me to pick up easy pots. Would he really play a queen this way? You figure he would reraise AQ or KQ preflop. At worst, I’d lead out with on that flop with QJ. With my stack pretty much bordering on nothingness, I make a crying call and he flips over 10-6. Cha-Ching, there’s over 5000 chips in the pot and if I win this one, I have the tools to make a run a the title. Turn K, river Q, we split the pot, and life runs out of my body.

Pot Limit is kind of cool. It’s not really that different from No-Limit. The one big difference is that you can’t open raise all-in preflop unless you’re the mega shortstack. By the flop, especially when the blinds are high, the pots are so huge that it pretty much plays out like a No-Limit hand. It was nice a change of pace though. Kudos to those in charge.

I played some cash games for the rest of the night, pretty uneventful, I think I finished down a 100$. Just a night of plain dead carding. When I left to go to bed, Hoy and PresLee were duking it out for the title. I wasn’t really surprised to see who won this morning, Hoy put out another dominating display.

I really think Hoyazo plays these things at another level than the rest of the bloggers. I seriously think he has a 200% edge over the rest of the field, he is that damn good. I really wouldn’t be surprise if a year from now we read weekly posts on his blog about multiple 22k and 17k wins at the Stars and Party Poker 100$+ tournaments. Keep up the good work Hoy!

I hope to see you guys at the WWDN, my first in almost two months!