Just back from having a nice steak dinner.  I actually had stone crab, not steak.  Chad had the steak.  Clonie Gowen joined us for dinner, also.  We had some great conversation.  It turned out that Chad and I are both sitting on the same chip stack, 16,000.  Chad got Aces cracked and missed two flush draws.  I actually missed two top-pair/flush-draw/straight-draw-on-the-turn hands to overpairs.  It was odd to have two of that exact same sort of hands that ended up panning out like that, but that’s the way it was – I missed both.

I think I lost the minimum there and after those hands I was all the way down to 10,000.  I built my chip stack back up 17,000 after playing some hands creatively.  I limped with Jacks in late position when it folded to me, knowing that there was an aggressive player behind me that would put in a raise.  He did – he popped it to 1,000 and I re-popped it to 3,000.  He folded so I picked up 1,600 for my stack there, which was pretty cool. 

One hand before the break with 17,000 chips, I had Ace-King in the small blind and had to call a 1,000 raise.  I missed the flop and couldn’t call the continuation bet which was pretty significant.  There were two other opponents in the hand, so I let it go.

Turns out I’ve got 16,000 heading back from dinner  to finish level four.

Until next time,

Vanessa  J