DoR2: The PM

[11:40pm] It's over. EsqWire & I ended up HU. I had an inital chiplead but managed to donk off a good portion of it. The final hand went like this:

PokerStars Game #4817175581: Tournament #24047715, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2006/05/02 - 23:34:45 (ET)
Table '24047715 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: Robbie Robb (7740 in chips)
Seat 8: EsqWire (13260 in chips)
Robbie Robb: posts the ante 25
EsqWire: posts the ante 25
EsqWire: posts small blind 200
Robbie Robb: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Robbie Robb [Kc 5s]
EsqWire: raises 800 to 1200
Robbie Robb: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [3h 7h 6c]
Robbie Robb: bets 1200
EsqWire: calls 1200
*** TURN *** [3h 7h 6c] [Kh]
Robbie Robb: bets 5315 and is all-in
EsqWire: calls 5315
Robbie Robb said, "damn"
*** RIVER *** [3h 7h 6c Kh] [Ts]
Robbie Robb said, "gg"
EsqWire said, "nh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Robbie Robb: shows [Kc 5s] (a pair of Kings)
EsqWire: shows [Kd 6h] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
EsqWire said, "gg"
EsqWire collected 15480 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 15480 | Rake 0
Board [3h 7h 6c Kh Ts]
Seat 2: Robbie Robb (big blind) showed [Kc 5s] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 8: EsqWire (button) (small blind) showed [Kd 6h] and won (15480) with two pair, Kings and Sixes

So it was close, but he outplayed me. Still a good showing though. $42 in my pocket plus 2nd in the points after 1 event.

That's it for poker for me for the night.

Daily net: $35.69
MTD: $22.69
PMTD: -$32.50


[11:25pm] Nikki just busted out with 55 against K9. EsqWire rivered the 9 sending her to the rail. The very next hand I sent Boobie Lover to the rail with pocket tens.

[10:30pm] Made it to break. Nikki's still the short stack @ 1170 but I've climbed up to 5th with 2565. Rounding out the table:
Studiopet 3505
TheNextThing (Zy) 3080
JD 2885
EsqWire 2855
Me
Boobie Lover 2490 - He successfully dropped Teh Hammer against KQ and won with two pair!
Jimmy 2450
Nikki
Tough table tonight.

[10:20pm] Final table. Nikki's short stack at ~1400 chips and I'm right behind her at 1500. Grr.

[9:50pm] Just dumped some chips to JD. I had ATs with a flop of J6A rainbow. JD bet aggressively and I just couldn't continue. I saw the turn (a king) and we checked the river. It didn't help me and he bet a good size bet. Oooh. And this just in - TP was just busted by MC Ash. TP's pocket eights ran into Ash's pocket sevens with a seven on the flop.

[9:45pm] I just ended up all-in against TP. I had QQ he had AKs. I flopped a queen. Crippled him. Ended up being 14 people registered to play.

[9:30pm] The cards are in the air. I've got StudioPet, TP, Boobie Lover, JD, MC Ash, and Jimmy (coming to us from all the way across the pond!) at my table. Nikki's at the other table.

Okay kiddies. We're five minutes away from the start of event numero uno of the Second TalkingPoker.com Forum League. Twenty events over the next two months. Your top 10 placings count towards your final point total for your share of the pot.

Tonight's event is coming to you live from PokerStars (well, okay, ALL the events will be coming to you from PokerStars) and the action is looking to be fierce. At the time of this writing we have 11 people registered including a brand new forum member who just joined TODAY from, of all places, Toronto! Could this be someone with an existing TP connection? We shall see. Welcome RaiseOCthulu!

I'm going to do my best to live blog the important hands here. They'll appear at the top of this post.