Main Event Round 3

After a brutal Round 2 we're back in the ring.

Seat 6 raises to 750 and we call from seat 7 with 56c. Everyone else folds. Flop comes red ATT. Hmmm, there's no chance we want any part of this. He bet. I don't remember what it was. It could have been a simple dare that we would pluck an eyebrow if we lost the pot; we would have folded at any opportunity.

We raise pre-flop twice from late seats, once with AJh and once with QK. Both times everyone folds. Good result. Same thing from seat 3 with 77.

So far today we've had KK, JJ (twice), 77 and 44. Not bad.

Seat 5 raises to 600 and we call from seat 7 with TJc. The BB calls and the flop comes 24T with one club. They check and we bet 1500. They fold. Our stack is almost back to 30,000.

Seat 3 limps and PP in seat 8 raises to 1200. SB folds and we're in the BB with 77. It's 900 to call, and if we think we can get 7200 if we flop a 7, then it's right to call. PP is aggressive, so we call. Seat 3 folds. Flop comes 57T. Fantastic. Let's let him bet. We check and he checks. That's disappointing. Turn comes Q. We bet 1300 and he raises to 3500. We have a lot of chips to get in the pot and we're in no rush. The board is a rainbow, so there's no flush fear. It's highly unlikely that he's raising on a straight draw. The only hands we're afraid of are QQ (which he would have bet post flop) and TT. Really, TT is the only hand he can have that scares us. We raise to 8500 and he raises all in. TT is looking like a real possibility here, but set over set flops are pretty rare and, well, if that's the way we go out, there's no shame in it. Meanwhile, if he has TQ or AA or something like that, we'll double up. We call. As you might have figured out from the timing of this email, he had TT and, with a K on the river, PP put us out of the tournament.

This was the worst WSOP performance ever. I'm going to go flog myself. Thanks for following along. If I can get up the courage, I'll play again next year. Most of it was fun, if troubling.

Eric Kurtzman
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