Weird stuff

*Shannon ended up 3rd in the $1,000 NL event for 11k, see his blog for final table details

I played the $1,500 NL event today with Nate and Jon. There were 95 people in the event and 9 got paid with first place being close to 50k. I never felt really comfortable playing at any of my tables. There were always people who would shove in at any time just looking to gamble and that made it very difficult to accumulate many chips for me. I got very low stacked about 3 hours into it but got lucky and tripled up when I flopped top pair and a flush draw with J4 on a J95 board. I was up against KK and Q 10 but hit a 4 on the river to build my stack to about 7,000. I played very well for the next two hours and had my stack as high as 30,000. Then we re-drew for tables and I just couldn't seem to execute anything well. Every steal I tried got re-raised and most of the pots I won were very small. I was down to about 14,000 in chips with 13 people left when I opened from 2nd position with A 10. It folded to the BB who was a aggressive, but fairly poor player, who I had played quite a few pots with. He decided to call and we took a flop. The flop came 46A and he checked it to me. I pondered then checked behind with the intention of letting him bluff at it on the turn. The turn came a 3 and he led out 4,400. I pondered for while and studied him, I had a tell on him and thought he looked strong but I didn't go with my instincts and decided to push in. He auto-called me with A4 for a flopped 2 pair and I was out of the tournament in a disappointing 13th place. That sucked.

After that Jon busted out in 10th place for an even more disappointing bubble and we all went back up to our room. Jon was leaving in the morning so we settled up the bill and then Jon and Shannon got the idea to flip coins for the balance of what Jon had borrowed from Shannon. We are SUCH degenerates. After watching the action Nate decided he wanted in on it and flipped for like $2,000 with Jon in a best of 7 series of flips. Nate got dominated and I wanted a little action as well. I told Nate since this obviously wasn't his night that I would do one flip of one coin one time for $1,000 and he quickly agreed like the sucker he is. The stipulation was that the money had to be on the bed so we each peeled 10 $100's off and put them on the sheets. He called Tails, what a sucker, and I knew before it even hit the ground that Heads was coming. BOOM, Heads, thanks for the donation Nate!

Nate then went on the lose almost $10,000 in coin flips at one point, but got 7k back from Shannon at the end of the night. Nate felt sick, but he shouldn't have because he made almost $20,000 on-line today after busting out of the tournament.

Coin flips for thousands of dollars, God help us.