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2008-11-14 21:43:26
Venetian Deep Stack - Take Three
I guess u should have slept in, as Adrian is doing. Turns out I'll be able to watch him play the final table :p
I played 4 meaningful hands in today's tournament. We started with 15k in chips and I still went out in the third round. Ugh.
I lost 1500 with pocket fives. The guy flopped trips and made a great value bet on the river.
I lost another 1500 when I turned two pair from the small blind and for raised on the river by a flopped wheel. The guy threw in a single chip to raise, but said "play for it" which I guess means raise. The floor ruled against me.
I raised with
only to get reraised from the small blind. The flop came 
and the guy bet out. I raised, he reraised and I folded face up. He showed aces... There goes 8k.I'm at 6k and I fold for 45 minutes. I raise with
and get one call. The flop comes 
and I bet 3/4. Dude calls. Turn is the 
so I move in, hoping he has top pair worse kicker or worst case is on a flush draw. He snap calls with 
and that's the ball game.Adrian plays in two hours. Hopefully he can make up for this and give people some terrible beats :p
Live Updates (brought to you by Jason via Ethan)
- 4:15 pm - Adrian has stolen blinds twice and has about 380k in chips, now bblind
- 4:18 pm - One revolution and Adrian is on the button again with 350k
- 4:20 pm - Wait - there's an all-in! 2 people are out, Adrian on the button again
- 4:21 pm - tied with one guy for short, 7 players total
- 4:23 pm - M = 5.5
- 4:27 pm - some dude's KQ just took out one guy with AQ by spiking a K! Top 6 baby!
- 4:28 pm - Adrian all in for 345k, no calls
- 4:31 pm - He'd short stack and guaranteed 5k or so for 6th
- 4:33 pm - another shove by Adrian and no calls
- 4:35 pm - so far no flops without all in preflop. Sitting at 400k.
- 4:36 pm - all in again, no calls
- 4:41 pm - 470k. Now tied with 2 others for short. 3 other guys have over 1 million.
- 4:41 pm - All in, no calls. This guy is a machine
- 4:44 pm - First flop of the table. Bets and calls. Chips move between the big stacks.
- 4:54 pm - All in from his SB, no calls.
- 4:55 pm - One more eliminated. JJ limp to catch somebody and small goes in with 66. Buh-bye! Top 5!
- 4:57 pm - Other short stack just doubled up. Now they are talking chop.
- 5:04 pm - They redid payouts by agreement: 25k, 19k, 12k, 12k, 12k. Adrian probably will finish in the 12k, but this is a tremendous deal for him. 5th only got 6k previously and Adrian is short by far.
- 5:05 pm - Now they are arguing more. Maybe no deal.
- 5:11 pm - Final deal is 28k, 17k, 12k, 11k, 10k. That's guaranteed 3rd place money. Not a bad deal for the guy with half the average stack.
- 5:16 pm - And Adrian is all in again. Time to loosen up and go for first! No calls.
- 5:24 pm - Jeff's (Weezermoo's) advice: "monkey mash" it in and go for 2nd.
- 5:25 pm - Adrian actually saw a flop, bet and took it down.
- 5:37 pm - They are bleeding him out. Hasn't done much lately.
- 5:43 pm - All-in and called!!!!!
- 5:46 pm - Won the hand with TT vs AT, and the case T hit in the window! DOUBLE UP and more! Now almost average with 4.8M chips in play.
- 5:49 pm - 800k+ in chips. Average stack now.
- 5:54 pm - Chips: 1.5M, 1.1M, 900k, Adrian at 850k, last guy at 600k
- 6:08 pm - Adrian made his first not all-in raise of the final table and saw a flop. He had to fold, and is now probably back to shoving.
- 6:13 pm - Saw another flop. Chip leader went all in. Adrian is thinking... he calls.
- 6:14 pm - There was an ace on the flop and they both had aces, but Adrian's kicker is GOOOOOD! Doubled!
- 6:14 pm - New Adrianism: when he two paired with his queen that hand he said, "And the queen for pleasants", which means 'good' I suppose.
- 6:15 pm - Queen came on the turn to make opponent drawing dead.
- 6:18 pm - He's chip leader at about 1.7M - that's about 1/3 of the chips!
- 6:28 pm - Chip leader coming in to final table is now severely short stacked, and probably out soon.
- 6:41 pm - 2.3M. Approaching half of the final table chips with 5 players still in.
- 6:42 pm - Only 4 left! Adrian took out the short stacked former chip leader.
- 6:47 pm - Still around 2.15 in chips.
- 6:58 pm - They all have enough chips to play, so it's pretty uninteresting right now.
- 7:04 pm - The tournament organizer says it should be over in about an hour.
- 7:04 pm - Down to 3. Short stack got bad beat. They are renegotiating the split now.
- 7:15 pm - Almost over. They are chopping.
- 7:27 pm - They chopped 3-way and Adrian gets the trophy, the picture, and $21,613 since he was the chip lead!!! Picture soon.
- 7:30 pm - Correction: in the earlier hand that Adrian doubled up through the chip leader, there was no ace on the flop. He called the all-in with ace high, and the queen came on the turn.
Update
For Adrian's angle of the tournament, go here!
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