No, not at all. And no reason to be. He finished in 107th out of 133, but had AK cracked twice in the early going. (And it isn’t like I fared any better when I enterered a blogger tourney - though Rick did.) If he sends me the hand history I’ll know more.*hint* Coach and Dr. Pauly also went out early, both busting out in the mid-90’s. I’m sure Pauly will write it up and I hope Coach will send me a hand history or a report. *hint hint* (Unless 63d is considered “the mid-90’s,” you got Pauly’s finish wrong. - ed.)
Despite getting knocked out in 93d, Coach had a pretty cool tournament. He knocked out two players that he didn’t recognize, and peaked at T3,700 during level 3. Everything in the boxes is in Coach’s own words.
One of the people he knocked out happened on what a lot of people mistakenly call a bad beat:
I had Ax against an all-in player with Kx. The flop was 2-3-K, and amazingly, I caught runner, runner for a wheel straight to knock him out.
Yes, the runner-runner is dramatic, but if I understood Coach’s report, the money went in before the flop, so Ax was the better hand at the time. It doesn’t matter what order the cards come down.
It all turned very quickly, though.
On consecutive hands, I lost to
1) J9o with AA, when a 9 fell on both the flop and the turn
2) K10s (clubs) with AQs (clubs) when a K fell on the flop to Wil Wheaton
3) QQ in early position to tp’s KK in the next seat over, when nothing fell on the board.
As Coach noted to me, he got knocked out on a similar hand to the hand I knocked him out on at the Blue Parrot tournament. But the reraise-push with queens here is obviously better than the same push with tens there.
asphnxma said that he was having too much fun chatting to keep good notes. It sounds from Coach like this was true.
After Wil beat me with the K10s, I typed, as I normally would, Nice hand but instead of finishing it off with “, Wil” I slipped and mistakenly said , Wes as in Wesley Crusher. Realizing my slip, I immediately typed oops, I mean Wil.
After I got eliminated on the next hand (the QQ-KK heads up) he typed something to the effect of, Dude, that was total karmic payback for calling me Wes
He was right, of course, so I responded with, I’m sorry. It was an honor to play with you. I would never say anything bad about a guy who got to kiss Ashley Judd before she was ‘hot.’ (That occuring in an ST:NG episode fairly early on, when both actor and actress were in their late teens/early 20’s).
Very important scare-quotes, Coach, as Ashley Judd has always been HOT.
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