NLH

Seat 4 raises to 8500 and we flat call from seat 5 with AA. Giddey-up! We are hoping seat 8 who is short stacked will push all in. He doesn't and we see the flop heads up 49T with 2 hearts. He pushes all in for about 40000. Unless he has a set or 2 pair we are in the lead. And we have the Ah for the back door flush draw. If he has the 78h its an even match, but these are unlikely hands. We call and he shows JJ. The turn is a 9c and the river a Qd. Our aces hold up and we take it down.

We see a few bad flops that cost us 6000 or so each and sit patiently. There are exactly 100 players remaining.

We limp in from seat 4 with 67h. We have enough chips that people will think twice before raising. The button and BB call and we see the flop 9TA with 2 hearts. We have a gut shot straight draw and a flush draw. We bet 600 and they both call. The turn is the 3h giving us the flush an the BB bets 14000 into us? We would like to raise to stop him from getting another heart but we want the button to call. We call and the button folds. The river comes 2h. Terrible. He bets 32000. Does he have a heart bigger than the 7? What was he calling with post flop? if he had a pair, then one of his cards should be ruled out. We call hoping he doesn't have a heart and he shows K5h to take it down. Good thing the river was a heart or we would have lost a lot more.

Seat 5 raises to 650 and we re-raise from the BB to 1650 with AJ. He pishes all in for another 70,000. If he has anything other than a pocket pair greater than T or an A with a K or Q, the odds are right for us to call. Not sure, we fold and take another draining lump to out stack.

We are back to where we started the round at 192,000. Okay - head in the game.

Everyone folds to the SB who pushes all in for 37500. We call from the BB with AT. The SB shows A5. We are a huge favorite but he flops a 5 and it hold up.

We are now down to 140,000 - an average stack.

Our table breaks. Good. Time to mix it up.

We sit down at our new table and are disappointed to find that the one short stack is sitting directly to our left. That makes it very difficult to play any hand we are not willing to go all in on, because he will have a propensity to push all his chips in right after we move.

We try to play several hands, but in each case someone pushes all in before the flop and we fold. Each of these attempts cost us 8000 in chips. We get down to under 90,000 chips, which is quite depressing as we were at almost 300,000 only an hour ago.

I don't recall the hand well enough to relay, but while we still have enough chips to bluff, we make the move successfully and bring our chip stack back to about 115,000.

Seat 4 raises to 8000 and the button calls. We have AQ in the SB. This is the time to make our move but we just call hoping the short stack now in the BB will push. He folds!

With 33000 in the pot we see the 79Q flpp with 2 diamonds. Excellent! We lead out with 13000 and seat 4 calls. The button folds and we watch the 2h turn. Meaningless rag. We lead out with 26000 and he goes all in! We call and he shows TQ. Anything but a T on the river and we will take down about 235,000 in chips. Don't recall the river but we took down the pot.

Seat 6 raises to 8500 and we call from the button with AT. The BB calls and the flop comes 27A rainbow. Perfect. They both check and we bet 13000. The BB raises to 32000 and seat 6 folds. What could he have? He coul have called pre flop with a suited A7 or A2 but that would be quite lucky. Also, if he had a big ace, one with a face card, he would have raised pre flop from his out of position blind seat. He could also have made a set, but check raising wouldn't be a likely betting strategy then. Nope - unless he's really lucky, we are good. We raise to 57000. He calls and we see the turn. It's a 9. As long as it didn't pair the board or give us a T, it was largely irrelevant. He checks and we bet 75,000. He tanks for a moment and folds.

We have come roaring back. We finish round 15 with 335,000 in chips and 74 opponents. Dinner time.

Up And Down Donkey, And Up

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