I get dinner with James, Michelle and Tim at one of the restaurants at Crown; the pizza is average but pots of beer are $2 so good times are had by all. Tim and Michelle opt out of credit card roulette and James and I decide to flip for the remaning $25 or so. I lose my first credit card roulette ever (1 for 3 now) but fortunately it’s for what must be the smallest credit card roulette bill in history.

We head down to the poker room, James puts on his PokerNews shirt and takes over reporting duties for the ‘State of Origin’ Feature Event while I head to the cash tables for some 2/3. I draw a ridiculously bad/loose table and buy in for $200. On the first hand, I look down a 9h 9d in MP. UTG limps, I check my option after having posted, two more players call and the button raises to $22. Button is a loose/bad cash player and i’m way ahead of his button isolation range but being OOP sucks. SB calls, BB calls then UTG calls as well. Okay, well the UTG limper is unlikely to be trapping since he sucks at poker, none of these players are flatting TT+ in the SB or BB so the only player I have to worry about is BTN. With close to $100 in the pot and a good chance that I have the best hand plus fold equity and somewhat decent equity against BTN’s calling range (which I assume is JJ+, AK, AQ) I elect to move all in. The player who limped behind me tanks… then overcalls? What the fuck? Button thinks for a moment then elects to call and when it folds around to UTG, he says ‘now I have value’ and calls too, leaving $16 behind. BTN is all in for about $150, i’m all in for $200, UTG has $16 behind and MP2 covers. I know I have a better hand than UTG and MP2, with no idea what button has but a suspicion that he’s at the weaker end of his range so probably AQ or JJ tops. Everyone keeps their cards down and I find myself in an $800 pot on the first hand.

Flop: 6h 2h 2d

Both players check. Cool, so neither of them has an overpair. Massive LOL at checking with $16 behind in an $800 pot, but whatever. Nine or lower please.

Turn: 4h

Check, check. BTN looks like he’s losing interest in the hand so i’m pretty sure he has AK or AQ since he doesn’t look enthusiastic at all. I must be good.

HOLD!

River: Th

Far from the best river in the deck but also far from the worst. I make a nine high flush. UTG takes his time to show and seems to want to see what everyone else has first so I show my nine high flush. MP2 mucks QJo with no heart face up. LOL, donkaments. BTN mucks AKo with no heart. HOLD! UTG triumphantly slams down Qh Jx for an epic slowroll and epic fail given he overcalled a shove with two callers with QJo. So it turns out I was in decent shape there preflop against AK, QJ and QJ. Whatever. I’m in no mood to play after the slowroll so I stand up and leave.

Day 7 - I’ve busted the $1100 6max when AK