Just bust me and you’re good

All night, Ryan wasn’t getting any cards. He showed me. Nothing. J4 was a raising hand for him. Usually, this means that Ryan is going to get sick cards later in the night and crush everyone. Nothing changed tonight, except for the second week in a row the winner of the tournament was hovering around the middle, then busted me, and went on a meteoric soar towards the title. So basically, it’s been bust me, and you’re good.

8. Jason (rebuy)
7. Paul (rebuy)
6. Charlie (rebuy)
5. Me
4. Jim
- Jason
3. John
2. Dave
- Paul
- Charlie
1. Ryan

Before we get to that debacle, let me just say that Jason was getting CRUSHED tonight. He’s been getting crushed regularly this Fall but tonight seemed much worse. Here’s an example, raise preflop with AA. Called by John. Flop comes 8, 10, 7. Series of betting, they’re both all in. John has J’s and is crushed. A 9 on the turn gives John a straight. That took alot of his chips.

He was then involved in one of the biggest hands of the night. Paul raises in middle position to 300. Three people call around to John, in the small blind, who makes it 1000. Four people call. In the second blind level 4000 in the pot before the flop is pretty monsterous. Flop comes 893. John bets 2500. Fold fold, Jason calls all in fold. He flips pocket 2’s and John has AK. Jason is ahead! Turn is a King, and he’s out.

Some double ups, knock outs and rebuys later I’ve won about 3 hands and have about 2000 more chips then we started with. I’m doing fine. Not great, with 55000 on the table, but fine. Like I said above, Ryan has been getting nothing and the one pot he raised, he had J4 because he got bored. So when he makes the bet 1800 before the flop, and I’m on the button with pocket 10’s, I’m thinking he has a medium pocket pair or AK. In those neighborhoods. I definitely don’t put him on a monster just because he hasn’t been getting the cards, and it was a standard 3x raise. I move all in. He calls. And has Kings. Oof. A baby flop at least reassures me that, if I had just called, I would have lost then. I’m out and since the extended rebuys just ended, I’m forced to sit and ponder my loss. A Bud Light was consumed to put out the flames.

Jason’s night ended a second time when, he raises big before the flop, John (who had just hit a miracle gutshot straight draw to survive) calls. John has A10, Jason QQ. He’s way ahead as usual. Flop brings the Ace, however, and Jason can’t believe he awful fortune.

It’s probably because he didn’t bust me like Ryan did. In a limped pot between the now chip rich John and the chip leader Ryan, flop comes 253 with two spades. John bets 2000, Ryan makes it 4000, John moves all in for another 4000 and Ryan, after some thinking, calls. He has 58 for top pair and John has 68s for a straight draw, flush draw, and an over pair of 6’s. Ryan avoids them all though for the monster bust out. Soon after, Paul mistakenly sees one of Dave’s cards and Dave gets the burn instead. Good think, it matched up his first Q and now he’s got ladies. He makes the bet 3500 preflop and Ryan, already in for a thousand and ridiculously hot at the moment calls. He has K5. For 3500 preflop. Apparently, he knew the poker gods would bring him a King, Dave would move all in on the flop, Ryan would call and bust Dave out.

Ryan then busted Paul when Paul moved all in with A8 and Ryan had, predictably, A9. Heads up, Charlie is going to need a miracle. He thinks he might have it when he sees a pocket pair of 2’s, moves all in and Ryan calls. With Jacks. No two for Charlie meant a tournament win for Ryan.

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