Blogger Tourney @ Pokerstars - update

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October 23rd, 2005 – 4:00pm EST (3:00 CST)

Registration code: 3249060

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Hit several big hands early (two limped pocket pairs connected for sets, pocket queens held up) and I was chiplead at my table early. I dropped a little and got shuffled a couple times, and mostly just got blinded down, playing maybe 3 hands in the second hour (winning two small pots with AK and JJ, losing a blind steal from the SB when the BB pushed over me). At the second break, I'm at $3415. Average is 11201, so I'm down to almost 1/4th average. We've got 263 players left, out of the 1473 that started. Top 99 "pay" in terms of prizes. Oh, and i should mention that the Venetian is seated to my right with close to T15k.

Almost immediately after updating the above post, I pushed from the button with any two - happens to be 84o - over one limper and the two blinds + antes. Blinds quickly folded to the limper who had about 10k behind and was facing a ~2k raise from me - limper went in to the tank for a while and then made the call. I was very happy to see he'd made a very very marginal call with A5s and I was only a 66%-34% underdog. The flop came A8x with one spade - I then caught a third eight on the turn, but it was another spade. Immediate elation. However the river of justice quickly brought one more spade and I was out in 244th place. Just flat out card dead most of the day - I'm not disappointed in my play at all, but certainly disappointed in my cards.