So we are in the second day of the Stud event. Good luck to Sabyl, Matt Grapenthien, Bob Luria, and others also playing today. Sorry I haven’t had many posts but it’s late nights like this that stop me. My friends from SIG are coming into town today and staying for three days. BTW there is a Party at the Poker house 4-11pm Saturday. RSVP through one of the housemates or me if you know me, and we will send you details.

I ended with 35500 in chips. Nothing really eventful in the later rounds that I can remember, a few tough decisions at the beginning. The classic situation I frequently find myself in is a 2 brings it in, a 3 completes I have (J6)J with a T, a 4, and the bringing and completer to act, so I raise, the 3 defends, SO by 5th the 3 is showing 632 and I still just have (J6)J4Q, What is your plan? I decided to check and call. Jerrod argues for folding which I think is rather tight given how big the pot is now. Of course if you are against a small pair and a low draw you would call, but again it depends on the range of the 3′s hand. Andrew prock says calling down is the best option. Anyway, he catches a 4 on 6th and I decide to fold. But each oof these decisions are non-trivial. Even the 6th street decision, if it had been a 5, given that I saw a couple of 4′s fall, I might be inclined to call. This shows it’s hard to have generic rules for Stud games as liveness/deadness of cards is key.

Congrats to Matt Hawrilenko in the 10K limit Holdem, it’s Matt’s best game, and he could be the best limit holdem player in the world. I played at his table the first day and it was tough, although I got the better of him in many of the hands we played, he survived and made a good run at it before finishing 5th.