Change100 at PokerWorks

I played the PokerStars Oceans 13 Darfur Tournament this afternoon and finished 263rd out of 744 runners. The event ended up raising $41,800 for Not On Our Watch. I went in for 4 rebuys plus the add-on and happily busted my Stars account for a worthy cause. I ended up seated at the same table as the lovely Mad Harper, who covers the EPT for PokerStars while Pauly drew Humberto Brenes’ table. He had more railbirds than the Costa Rican “Sharrrrrrrk.” I spotted Drizz, Katitude, yestbay1, bayne_s, AlCantHang, Derek, EPT founder John Duthie, Katja Thater, Bill Chen, Tom McEvoy, and Chris Moneymaker in the field.

My big opportunity to acquire a stack came late in the rebuy period when I called with A-K in a four-way pre-flop all in. My opponents had K-J, K-J and 5-8 offsuit. An 8 flopped and I was felted. Did a double rebuy and hung on with between 3000-5500 for the rest of the tourney. I donked out when I raised with K-T from the cutoff, got re-raised by the button and just decided to shove for 10 BB more. He had Q-Q and that was the ballgame. But it wasn’t really about winning in this one.

Pauly played a lot better than I did and went out on a bona fide bad beat “with A-9 vs. A-2 and the cumstain rivered a 2… you can quote me on that.”

I played a few $6.50 turbos during the Darfur tourney and finished 2-2-4, funding a couple of rebuys. I suck at playing heads-up in these turbos and seem to lose all solid reasoning and patience when we both have like, 6000 chips and the blinds are 400-800/100. I blew huge chipleads heads-up to land both my second place finishes.

Tomorrow, Pauly and I pack up the car and move to Vegas for the next two months to cover the WSOP for PokerNews. For our summer digs, we have a lovely furnished apartment with a patio and a big screen TV at the tweaker-free Del Bocca Vista complex, which also features two pools and a gym. We have a ridiculously short commute to the Rio and are within a five-minute drive of a Sonic. Mmmmmm… Texas Toasters. We’ll have a few days to settle in, attend some pre-WSOP meetings, and hopefully find time to play some cards.

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