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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Week 26 - What's that smell, Harry? Oh...it's your cards.

Location:
1st (10p / 2k / $): Ray "Biding Time" Flowers
2nd (7p / 1k / $): Harry "Gotta Flop" Jarvis
3rd (4p / 2k): Randall "Wordsmith" Ryan
4th (2p / 1k): Lee "Low Budget" Nichols

5th (1p / 0k): Seamus Rail
6th (1p / 1k): Martin Galway

Top Five things signifyed by Harry Jarvis's return:

5. Martin is no longer "Least Likely To Know It's His Turn To Act"
4. Martin is no longer "Most Likely To Push With Bull Shit"
3. Unemployed musician/consultants can't take one more unemployed Californian moving to Austin
2. Poker nights will undoubtedly run much later
1. Always play 5-3 offsuit

6 people. We should be done early, right?

Oh. Hello Harry.

At 10:15 there were still 6 people at the table (with 2 rebuys). But, Martin had managed to go from big stack (stop me if you've heard this one) to the first person out. Seamus, who had run everyone away from calling Martin's all-in by going all-in himself with K-J offsuit (Martin's A-x held) was karmically the next to fall. And then Harry took over.

Harry goes all-in, Ray calls. Harry has K-8 offsuit, Ray has pocket 8s and has Harry well covered. The flop comes and Ray quads his 8s. Except...Martin & Seamus were dealers, Martin throws down the board, but Seamus had the play deck. So, the correct board has Harry catching his K. Harry survives.

Lee, who's getting quite proficient at playing the short stack well nevertheless succumbed. And then Harry started pushing. Since no one gets a 15-minute run of cards, the smell emenating from Harry's cards began to fill the air. Finally, Harry called all-in when Randall had A-J suited. Harry had 5-3 offsuit.

Flop: 3 (EEK)-J (whew)-8. Turn: 5. River no help, Harry is $1500 over Randall and goes heads-up with Ray. So Heidi bails, but Harry takes her place. Maybe it's "Things That Start With the Letter H."

Alas, Harry's luck ran out as Ray slowly bled him dry. Oh, there was some up and down, and heads up did go a long f-ing time, but eventually it ended.

Welcome back, Harry.
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