Res Ipsa Poker

Found myself in an unusual position in last night's Riverchasers event. I had chips.

Lots of chips.

I zoomed to 10,000 in no time flat by stacking two people early. Picked up some more when I flopped a set of 9s and took out Kat.

I had 15,000ish chips at the first break, comfortably in the top 3.

How do you play then? I'm never in that position.

The Full Tilt RNG ended up dictating what I did, by declining to give me anything resembling a playable hand. At least for the most part. I did manage to get hosed once again by Jacks when I decided to try and pick off a short stack with my last pocket pair, TT. JJ was OK for someone else and I dropped back down to just above 10k.

After an hour of folding 99% of hands I reached the 2nd break with a pretty average stack of 10kish.

I made two very marginal steal attempts early in hour 3 and was picked off both times. Suddenly I was real low on chips.

A timely AQo allowed for a late double up, but by that time I was short and the blinds were high. Went out 18th when I ran a late position J9s into AQ.

I'm sure that I could have, should have, played differently, but the "how" portion escapes me. I suppose I could have tried to resteal occasionally, but I admit to being loath to do so with 63o or 42s.

As always, I have a lot to learn.


Tonight is Dollar Donkament night, and I plan to engage in some cheap pushmonkey therapy. See you there.


Six lousy days until Las Vegas. Just thought I'd throw that out there, in case you didn't know.