7:18 PM 9/12/2005
Got to the tourny late because I was working, but the girlfriend played great poker, and just about doubled my stack. About 10 minutes in to playing myself, though, the guy to my right starts raising all-in every hand. After he does this three times in a row. The forth time he does it, I have A-A, so I call, and he turns up 9-10. I'm in great shape until the flop, which comes 10-9-x. The board doesn't pair anything else or bring an ace, so I lose about 2/3rds of my stack.
That was a blow, but two hands later I was holding 10-J with a Q-K-A flop, so doubled up. Just split a sb check three ways when the board showed two pair. Trying to get back into the swing, about T500 below average.
7:23 PM 9/12/2005
Lots of players didn't show (which tends to happen at a tourny with a big advanced notice like this one), so there are currently three players sitting out, blinds dwindling. In about 45 minutes, they'll all go out at the same time as their stacks disappear. That'll be interesting. I've got three on my left, so if everyone behind me folds when i've got the button or just after I do, I can take the blinds. Nice...
7:30 PM 9/12/2005
We're on break, I'm about T300 under average. I'm watching Wil's table too, and he's just about at Average. Haven't checked to see if other Team PokerStars players are here, playing, though I've heard Evelyn Ng is. She's not bad to look at. Stats at the break:
Stack: largest 43135, smallest 5, average 3230
Your current position is 290 out of 1027
7:36 PM 9/12/2005
Cards in the air. ruffryder25 (the player to my right) is still buying pots. The annoying guy who just went out was replaced with someone with T15000. yikes.
7:40 PM 9/12/2005
ruffryder25 just got busted when his Kh-Qc got bested by TheJim08 (the new, huge stack)'s Kc-Qs. Ouch.
In other news, my draw sucked, and i'm down to T1200 when my A-5c didn't come up with a third club or a 7 on the turn. I folded before the river when the new guy's bet would have put me almost all-in.
7:48 PM 9/12/2005
All-in with Q-Q, two other players (including a guy who's all-in I called). They had a K and A in their hands, respecivly, and a A came on the flop. No queens followed. I'm out in 642nd place out of 2212. Not a bad showing, but no prizes. Glad to help the hurricane victims, though.