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October 21, 2005

Cowboys Over Snowmen

by Luckbox

I think this is close to what it was like when I got seated at wil's table (click for larger):

I few hands later, I threw away a bunch of chips and found myself relatively shortstacked. Then I lucked into K's and won a nice pot. And then it happened. A few hands later, it's Cowboys again and wil pushes all in in front of me for about half my stack. I push all in to eliminate one caller and my K's hold up over his Snowmen. (wil liveblogged the tourney over at Card Squad.)

You never really feel bad about winning a big pot, but I didn't want to put wil out if I didn't have to. I managed to carry that stack all the way to 10th place before making a stupid call with KQ preflop. I lost to J's and was out. I would have made the final table had I just folded, but that's the way it goes.

Congrats to Sparky for holding up blogger pride and winning the whole thing! I also enjoyed playing with Chris and, of course, the Poker Princess.

It was a blast, and because I was lucky enough to bust him, wil named next week's tourney at Pokerstars the Up4Poker Invitational. Make sure you sign up and play!

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Comments

I see you have Otto as your icon. An alumni of SU or just a fan of humanized fruit?

Posted by: Jeff at October 22, 2005 1:14 AM

I thought you would actually get to name it, not have your user name used for the name.

The Powerline Invitational or the Belmont Club Inv would have been pretty good.

Posted by: StB at October 22, 2005 7:38 AM

Jeff: Yes, I'm an alum. And no, he's not humanized fruit! He just happens to be the color orange!!!

Steve: Yeah, I suggested the UpForPoker.com Invitational, but wil was worried PokerStars wouldn't like the .com in the name. But that's cool enough for me :-D

Posted by: CJ at October 22, 2005 11:40 AM

Oh really? I'm a junior at SU this year. Lived in Flint freshman year and Sadler last year. Hopefully basketball will be better than football is doing this year.

Posted by: Jeff at October 22, 2005 8:02 PM

I am sure he was thrilled to be beat and then have a blog post pointing out his defeat, lol... Nice work on getting 10th. It is hard to go back to a hand and wish you played it differentily because if you had hit a K or a Q you would have probably been in a great position in the final table.

Posted by: kendall at October 22, 2005 10:52 PM

I thought that was the Koolaid man! Oh Yeah!!!1!

j/k

Posted by: Scott at October 25, 2005 5:28 PM

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