...but 0 for 2 on making the second break. I'm working on that, though!

The major interesting hand was, once again, the fifth of the day. With 4K chips and 25/50 blinds, UTG, a middle aged guy with a lot of tattoos on his arms (read: probably a nice guy, probably not very good) makes it 175. A random MP flats, and then the button, a 20-something obvious online pro whom I've seen around and almost has to be good, overcalls. (I later found out the button is Moorman1, who recently won the 5K winner take all freezeout on Stars and is definitely solid.) I look down at AQo in the big blind and make it 4 ways to the flop.

Flop: A Q 8 (I may be confusing the exact card/suits, but definitely two clubs, one heart). I check intending to CR, but it checks around.

Turn: 5. I thought the pot was 650 (actually 700) so I only bet 400 instead of the 500 I should've, but no matter. At any rate, the PFR and the caller fold, but Moorman calls.

River: 2. At this point, I decide that a)Moorman never has a set (no way he checks behind the flop and then just calls the turn with that many draws), b)he can't really have clubs either because he's never going to check behind on the flop only to call the turn, and c)I may as well bet to let him find a call rather than rely on him to bluff when checked to when I've shown this much strength OOP. Additionally, if I underbet, I might get him to bluff shove, and since I can't think of a single hand he has that I possibly lose to, that's a good thing.

So after thinking a few seconds, I bet 700, right around half the pot, intending to probably call a raise. Moorman thinks for 15 seconds, plays with his chips, and right as I'm praying for him to hero call, he...says "all right, I'm a nit" and just calls with 76.

Oops. Yeah, I guess I did just accidentally turn top 2 pair into a bluff, why do you ask? At least my read was kinda right - he didn't have *just* clubs.

After that, I was rather short and very card dead so I essentially hung around for 3 hours until the inevitable busto. Nonetheless, I still feel good about live poker, and with WC doing okay/the 6 max event coming up, tomorrow should be fun.

Grats to cking, BTW - 7th place in the 1500 PL represents the first WC WSOP final table that I know of other than Vivek's limitament. Hopefully, it's the second of many.

So, I broke my own record and bustoed the 1500 pot limit event (that I decided to play at the last minute) on the...fifth hand or so.

The hand: With 3K chips and 25/50 blinds, someone limps in EP and I make it 200 with AK in MP. The big blind, who's an old guy (at least 60) who just got to the table, instantly makes it 350 total chips. If you've ever played poker, you'll know this is a really bad sign, but, obviously, it's impossible to just fold here.

Flop: K63. BB instapots it for 800 or so. When I'm playing my A+ game, I think I can honestly fold here*, but nobody ever actually does. I call, leaving just about a PSB behind both of our stacks.

Turn: spade. Oh well!

Still not feeling bad about it, I just laughed it off and went to grind some sats (which didn't go particularly well, either - but the play was very soft as usual.) I won't be playing tomorrow, but will definitely be putting some time in later this week.

*After thinking about it, I feel like this is a spot where live pros can and do occasionally find folds that the rest of us just don't understand, but aren't actually wrong. Yeah, I do have top top here, but the problem is that live, it's just obvious when somebody has the nuts, and I think making ridiculous folds that are actually good vs. the guy's range (of 1 hand) is a skill that a bunch of us have to get better at.