Well, Saturday I had to drop Sterling off to play day 1c at noon. I came back to the room and watched my Seminoles struggle and lose to UNC in basketball as David continued to sleep. I eventually woke him up so we could head up to Chili's to enjoy the playoff football games. We stayed and watch the full game of the ravens/broncos game. Then, we went up to casino and bsed a while and watched the 49ers/packer game. Our other roommate Sterling eventually made it through as we were having some beers and sweating him. We came back to the hotel and played some OFC with not one, but two wilds thanks to our buddy Seneca. We played this too late since David and myself got stuck.
We got up early Sunday to get ready for the restart of our tournament. I put on my falcons jersey and my game face. We all were pretty excited knowing first place was just under 170k. Well, the story of my trip was outlined this day. I played really well in the first level, 300 1k/2k. I lost a few races and 60/40s, but still managed to chip up over 200k going into 400 1200/2400. Then, I played an absurd pot that sent me to a dazed and confused position. UTG raised to 6k with 215k stack and a 50k stack called, it folded to me and I looked down at two red kings. I opted to make it 15.5k with a 210k stack. Folded back to UTG and he put in a 4th bet to 42k. The other guy got out of the way, and I postured for a few minutes trying to decide my best option. I figured he had AK a lot here but could also have JJ, QQ, and AA. Obviously I beat most of his range here, I elect to just call thinking he would prolly fold AK and only calling with AA and maybe QQ. The flop came out J95hhh, he donked 50k. This put me a big predicament, and I thought for a few minutes before I deciding my best option was going Allen for 178k. He tanked for 5 minutes as we were playing the largest pot of the tourn,Avnet 75 people from the money. He elected to call with AK and the ace of hearts. A standard 60/40 but for a huge equity spot. No waiting, he spikes the queen of hearts on the turn and I failed to hit the 10 of hearts on river for straight flush. I left the room in shock and shaken up. I had high expectations coming back to day 2 with a large stack and then busted in the second level. I took 30 minutes to calm down and refocus before I entered the turbo tournament that started at 1pm. That tournament didn't go well either and busted 1010<23ss after 3betting pre. Got it on the turn of a 6322 board. Didn't hit the ten on the river and went back to hotel room. I eventually gathered myself again to go back up there to play the 5pm tourney. I entered this tournament and found out a little ,after that I accidentally registered with Sterlings card as he tried to enter and said that he was already registered by either me or David. Well, we got that sorted out and David and myself grinded a short stack all night and busted in the last levels of the night before bagging up as Sterling busted early. Went to bed late and grab some junk food to put the miseries of a bad day past me.
Woke up bright and early, 11am(early for a poker player that is up to 5am usually), to do it all over again. Again, like a lot of the tourneys, I didn't get much going and busted just shy of dinner break. I ended up playing cash games all day with both Sterling and David. Like the rest of the trip, I lost in cash games yet again. Everything I did was just lose. I feel like I played well, but just ran bad just like the whole trip. Eventually, went to bed really late that night.
After just a few hours of sleep, I got up and headed to casino with only David as Sterling was leaving later tonight. We jumped in the 6max and I busted in record quick fashion. I turned JJ into a bluff and it didn't work, and then lost A10<99. I went back to hotel to nap, but instead got motivated to go grind cash with Sterling as he wanted to play one last session. Well, this session didn't go well either, but it was because the games were pretty dead and slow. We quit small losers and I went to go play the 5pm. I played this tourney all night grinding a short stack for most of the day. Late in the night, I got moved to my buddy, Jose's table. Had some fun over there and then my other buddy Carwash got moved over there. I played a lot of pots and couldn't beat the table donkeys with all the chips. I eventually 4bet shipped AQ to get snap called by 1010 and obviously lose in the last 15 minutes of the night. Well, grabbed David from cash room and came back to hotel only to have to give Sterling a ride to OKC airport. That was a fun 5 hour round trip. Two nights in a row with only 3 hours of sleep.
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