Res Ipsa Poker

10:30 pm - first break, at T3585 (83/96). 105 donkeys ponied up, including guest pro Scott Fischman.

In the first hour, I received 72 hands. Of those hands, zero were pocket pairs. One was AQo, during level one, which won me the blinds.

I misplayed - moderately - one hand, JTs from the SB. Cmitch made what looked like a steal raise from late position, I called and led the turn and river on a T high board. Didn't fire the last bullet, he showed ATo for the win. I picked up a note on his range in exchange for about 1k chips.

We're back in action.

11:07 pm - Antes just kicked in. So far this hour I had another AQo, took the blinds. Tangled with the Big Pirate in a battle of the blinds and turned a flush to pull a few chips.

11:09 pm - Just dealt my first pair, KK UTG. I get the blinds. Wheeeee.

11:17 pm - Second pair, 22 in the SB. Dumped preflop to a standard raise.

11:19 pm - And yuck. Get QQ in position and misplay it horribly. Outflopped, donk call, busto. 74th place.

For once it was 100% on me. I tried to get the double when I should have reraised preflop or laid it down when a king flopped and tried to fight my way up from an M of under 3 (stupid antes).

In 126 hands, I won one hand at showdown. What a day.