On the way to dinner, we passed a few portraits of the most prolific bracelet winners. Among them is Bill Baxter with 8 bracelets. He's sitting in the 1 seat at our table.
We start with 42,000 chips (I must have miss counted at the end of last round) playing 150 300 with 25 antes. That means 675 in the pot before cards are dealt.
We fold every hand for 24 minutes and then raise to 700 with TT in S8. BB raises to 2100 and we call. Flop comes 47K, all spades. He bets 1700. Unless he has an overpair or AK (of course these are very possible hands, in fact probable), we're probably good. If he does, a raise from us may push him out in fear of the flush. We raise to 4700. He thinks for a bit, and then calls. The turn comes 8c. He checks. The lack of a re-raise and then the check to me means he doesn't have the As, but bluffing now is too expensive. We check. River comes 2d. He checks, we check, and he takes it down with JJ. I wonder if he would have folded if we bet the river? Oh well, big loss.
S6 makes a weak raise to 650 and we call from the BB with 44. Flop comes 29Q. Hopefully he has something like suited connectors that missed that. We bet 900 and he folds.
In S6 we raise to 750 with KQ and everyone folds. Good result.
In S4 we limp with 66 and see the flop with S5 and the blinds. Flop comes 25Q. Blinds check and we bet 750. S5 calls. Turn comes J. We bet 1050 and he calls. River comes 3. We check, he checks, and he takes it down with 88. I suppose bigger bets would have pushed him off his hand, but not if he had Q9 or something like that and we didn't want to risk the larger amounts. We have about 33,500 chips still. A respectable stack.
S6 weak raises to 600. S7 calls and we call from the BB with 88. Flop comes 236. We bet 1600 with our overpair and S7 calls. Turn comes 6. Still liking our overpair we bet 2800, but he still calls. The river comes 7. If we bet, he will likely not call unless he has an overpair, so we check. He checks and shows TT. Aaarrgggghhh - a few minutes ago we lost a big pot with TT against JJ and now 88 against TT. We're down to about 28000 chips!
From S4 we raise to 750 with AQ and everyone folds.
Next hand from S3 we raise to 750 with AK and get called by S8 and the BB. Flop comes 24Q. BB checks and we bet 1250. They fold. Good result.
S8 raises to 800 and gets called by the SB. In the BB we call with 9Ts and see the flop 8TJ giving us middle pair and an open-ended straight draw. We bet 1400 and S8 calls. Turn comes A. We check and he bets 2500. We call. River comes 5. We check, he bets 4800 and we fold our pair of Ts.
In S4 we raise to 700 with ATh and get called by S6 and S8. Flop comes A24 with 2 clubs. We bet 1800 hoping to take it down, but the both call! We are afraid of a club flush or someone with an Ax where the x is a face card. Turn comes 7d, putting 2 diamonds on the board. We bet 4200; that should get rid of the flush draws. S6 calls, but he has called down with nothing in his short time at the table (he replaced the guy we busted with the set of 9s). S8 folds. River comes 7s - no flush on the board. We still check. There's probably nothing he calls with that doesn't beat us. He checks and we show the ace; he mucks.
From S8 we raise to 700 with AQ and get called by the SB. Flop comes ATT and we bet 900. He calls. Turn comes 5. We bet 1800 and he calls. River comes 3. He checks and we consider betting, but what if he's slow playing a T and raises? What if he doesn't have the T but raises and we have to fold? We just turn over the AQ and take the pot down.
We punch and kick a little more as we come to the end of Round 4 and finish the round with 43,500 in chips. After all that drama we're up 1500. Happy result.
Hopefully nothing to report for 2 hours!
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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El Segundo, CA 90245
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