Quickie

A big, heartfelt 'thank you' to everyone who has left comments or sent me email expressing sympathy regarding my nephew. It has been a pretty depressing, stressful week, but I'm glad to be part of such a supportive community. I'll be heading to Colorado tomorrow to be with my family (special thanks to kaz for helping me find a reasonably-priced flight to Colorado Springs on two days' notice), so this should be my last post of the week; just a quick recap of last night. The "long and ugly" post I promised earlier this week will wait until Sunday.

The WPBT Groundhog's Day Gala was not very exciting for me. I was raising with all manners of garbage early (including a reraise from the SB with the Hammer), stealing blinds, and then got sucked out for a split pot on my first showdown. Continued raising, taking blinds, until JJ on the button in Level 3. One limper, already a huge stack after busting three players with, I believe, set v. two pair, full house v. smaller full house, and nut flush v. smaller flush, called a 5xBB raise - the same person who sucked out on me earlier by rivering a paired board with A2o v. my AJ (A-K-9 flop). Flop came Q-8-5, two clubs, I believe. He checked, I bet 3/4 pot, he called. Turn missed all draws, I pushed, he called with KQo. Oh well!

Afterwards, I went to AM, where I placed 4th out of 19 despite playing somewhat passively and being mostly card dead. One opportune all-in suckout that quadrupled me up was the key hand.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the Blue Parrot Invitational this weekend. Good luck to Coach, Derek, Ferrari, Joaquin, Mas, Monte Christo, Pauly, Toby and Ugarte.

See you next week.