$500 Venetian Deep Stack

Las Vegas is slowing turning into Los Angeles. I get stuck in traffic on Spring Mountain in Chinatown for 20 minutes. Brutal!

So I'm 15 minutes late to the tourney and to punish me for my tardiness, I draw seat 1 on table 50. I hate seat 1!!!

We start with $15K and that is accompanied by 45 minute levels.

Table draw!

Seat 1: your favorite loser, JDN
Seat 2: rwg
Seat 2: random Asian guy that looks like he was born to be a member of BARGE. Weird Indiana Jones hat, check. Glasses, check. Ponytail, check. Probably a math nerd too.
Seat 3: rwg. Balding but still trying to look cool.
Seat 4: rwg younger than seat 3 but completely bald. He also likes to check dark.
Seat 5: older rwg who likes to raise with crazy hands, like the kids do. He also won't shut up and has told the table about his chemo.
Seat 6: older rwg. He looks kinda lost.
Seat 7: rag with serious SAG tendencies. He's also wearing a hat that says, "Laotion Lotion.". I wonder if that's his nickname, which would awesome, or just his favorite product.
Seat 8: middle-aged housewife with silver hair. I'm trying to figure out her range of hands because I've seen her play AK like aces and min raise with a full house.
Seat 9: younger rwg playing very weak tight

The table is pretty tight in the first level and I pick up 1000 chips in the first orbit. Sweet!

Then it all goes down the shitter. I basically call down with 2nd pair 8 or 9 times and lose half my stack.

Then this hand goes down.

It's limped to me on the button in two spots. I look down at A9 and call for 200. Small blind calls and big blind raises to 800. Seat 5 calls, so does the older lady in seat 8. Shit, I guess I should call too, so I do as does the small blind.

The flop falls T 8 9 rainbow. Small blind checks, big blind bets 2K. Seat 5 folds, old lady goes into the tank. If she calls I gotta call. Getting the right price. She calls, I call, small blind tanks it and starts talking to himself. What the... he raises to 5K. Damn. OK I'm done with hand.

Big blind and old lady call the 5K. Wait what? Whatever. I call leaving 3K behind. The turn is a 5 and its quickly checked to me! What?! All in.

I put my last 3K in and the small blind goes into the tank. I think at this point QQ and JJ will fold. The lady could easily have AJ the way she was playing. Small blind is talking to himself again. He finally moves in for 14K.

While the big blind thinks about it, the small blind leans over to me and tells me I'm winning the hand. What? There's a big possibility that I'm drawing dead. Hopefully this donk has an over pair or two pair. Those are the only hands I can beat.

Big blind and the old lady fold. The guy turns over 76 for the ass end of the straight. Drawing dead. Idiot. Or am I the idiot?

JDN

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