Res Ipsa Poker

Yeah, there was a Riverchasers PLO event. So what?

So as per usual I pretty much hung around the "dank position" (i.e. last). I never accumulated enough chips to get comfortable and then got hurt in a hand against the Big Pirate where he turned a boat on a non-threatening board and I rivered a smaller but strong enough to call the river value bet boat. Ugh. From that point on I received junk hands and played them weakly - largely because I never flopped anything better than 3rd pair or a backdoor draw. In short, whatever.

Suitably tilted, I made my way over to Stars and signed up for a Step 1 WSOP sit 'n go.

And I beat the living daylights out of that thing. Boom.

It lasted 40 hands. I took out one player and left a second player with 80 chips on the third hand when I actually HIT on a hand where I had double digit outs - hit a full house but a flush would have also worked. Donkey powers, activate! I took out another player on the sixth hand when I flopped a set and he decided TPNK was gold. Yet another player bit the dust on hand #7 with TPNK against my flopped frush. My fourth takeout was on hand #16, when I resucked with AK vs AQ. Victim #5 - hand #37. I have 86o in the big blind and see a free flop of QQQ. Super shorty shoves with K9o, six on the turn. Booom. Hand #40, A8s in the big blind, A86 flop. I bet it out, the guy in 2nd shoves, shorty folds (wisely - two tickets to Step 2), I call and crusher A6s. Oops. You go home now.

Thank you Stars, it was very very very refreshing to get smacked with the deck like that after how things have been going the last six weeks at that other site. I'm going to savor the win, at least until I get destroyed in my Step 2.