Man, that was a fun weekend. It was long though. I feel like I need a weekend, to recover from the weekend.

Ron and I played in a qualifier on Saturday morning. This one had 142 people in it. Ron went out on an absolutely horrid beat. He’s got AQ in the big blind, everyone folds and the small limps in. He raises the blind from $400 to make it $1000 straight. The small calls. The flop is 3 suited A, Q, rag. Small checks, and Ron moves all-in. The small blind calls him with Ad,9d. (the flop had one diamond) This guy is dead to runner-runner (two 9’s or two diamonds). He hits two running diamonds, and knocks Ron out.

Viscious.

I ended up playing for 5.5 hours that day. I made it down to 31st place (29 cash) and got busted one off the bubble. Losing that close to the money feels a lot like getting kicked in the balls. Hard. I was actually in decent shape, but I was moved to a table where I was the short stack, and put I had big slick in the blind, and I moved all-in. I was called by a guy with pocket 8’s. The dealer ran the flop, and flipped the cards over. The door card was a King, and I was feeling great. That is until she spread the flop to reveal 8, 8 under the king. The guy flopped quad 8’s, and I was smoked. It sucked. Still sucks.

We had a good time though. It was a really good experience, and I will for sure do it again in the future. Those tourneys are a ton of fun to play.