Event 2 Round 7-8

I will start by saying the great cards we had early in have now been evened out with bad ones. We folded over and over, which is particularly painful playing 250 500 with 50 antes, but the betting is now so severe that each hand is crucial. We only played a few.

Seat 5 raised to 900 and we called with AK in seat 6 hoping to get more action. Seats 7,8 and the bb cAll and see the 257 flop. Total garbage and everyone checks. The turn is an A. Giddey-up! bb bets 1800, seat 5 calls, we call, and 7 and 8 fold. River comes 9. Bb checks and seat 5 bets 4200. We call. Bb folds and seat 5 shows A2 for 2 pair. Well, thats what we get for slow playing pre flop. There is always great danger in letting people see some cards to try to create greater action when you start with the best hand; this is a textbook example.

Most bizarre hand of the night. Seat 3 raises to 800 (still playing 200 400 at this point) and gets calls from 67 and us. We have Q3 and shouldn't be in there but we are in the sb and have already paid 200 of the 800 with a big pot brewing. Bb also calls and five of us see the 388 flop. We have a pair of threes, but we are a scary player as we sit in the blind. Hoping no one has an 8 we bet 1600 into the 4000+ pot. Bb calls and everyone else folds. Turn comes J. At this point we should not bet, but we do - 4200, and he calls again! Not good. The river comes 9 and we check, confident they will bet and we will fold. They don't, they check and show 79. I don't get it. They called post flop when they shouldnt have, called a huge post turn bet when they shouldn't have and then made a pair on the river to beat our pair (and checked). They had nothing until the river. In light of their hand, our post flop terrible bet was actually the right move, but their terrible play negated out lucky mistake. We lost a rather large pot in what will confuse me for many many years.

Seat 6 raises to 1100 and we call from the button with 9Th. The bb raises to 2500. All call. The flop comes 245 w 1 heart. S6 bets 3000 and we fold. The remaining two players push all in and we watch 2 more hearts turn and river. We would have tripled our stack! They had flopped a straight (A3) and a set of deuces. The straight held up and the deuces went home.

We close round 8 and head to the coral with 20775 in chips, more than we started with but half of what we had four hours ago. With over half the field knocked out, the average stack is about 34000, so we will have to get very lucky to survive tomorrow, which starts at 2 pm. So hopefully you wont hear from me until 4 pm.

Query How can a donkey possibly survive if he makes glorious mistakes that turn out to be beautiful moves only to have a bigger donkey kick him in the head with even worse moves?

Thanks for cheering
Donkey

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