After another two plus hours post dinner of Q8s being the absolute top of my range preflop, I was fortunate enough to be able to fold my way through the bubble. At the time it burst, my stack was right around 12BBs. I ended up busting losing a 40/60 jamming KQo from the CO with two hands left to go on the day. This wasn't terribly disappointing, as coming back to play what in the next level would have been a ~10BB stack the next day wasn't a very appealing thought. I guess had I binked I could have tried to nurse my stack to an additional 5k Euros, but I'll have to settle for 15k. That's around ~$19.8k USD for those wondering. Given that the event felt like a freeroll I'm pretty content with the result, though I'll always wonder what could have been had my hand distribution during the entire second day not been beyond abysmal.
The highlight of the event was getting to chat with Chris Moneymaker for a little over eight hours of play on Day2. He is an incredibly personable and down to earth guy, and even mentioned me in an interview he taped during a break, saying that despite being the chip leader (at the time, shortly after he'd lose a few huge pots) he wasn't getting too out of line bullying the table because he had a big stack on his left playing solid (referring to me). At the time I had around 150-180k chips, which was likely in the 60-75bb range, so I wasn't a huge stack but could definitely do some damage. I hadn't really played back at him too much due to the extreme card death, but did cold 4b my one big hand all day after he 3b AQ, and 3b him with 64o from the BTN over his CO open once (he was opening super wide, and folded to both).
Pokerstarsblog also blogged about a trivial hand I played with Chris - though it was neat to see my name mentioned trivial or not. Here's the quote:
'Moneymaker's hand in the till
He's worked his way up to well over 400,000 - and the chip lead - so you can forgive Chris Moneymaker for being "at it" once in a while. On this one he open raised to 5,000 and got a call from Jason Collier.
Both checked the Q♠8♠4♥ flop and also the 4♠ turn. The 5♠ river made a flush likely and Moneymaker bet 7,000. Coller thought for a moment and made the call. "You got it," said the 2003 world champion - and he was right as Collier showed 6♠6♦ to take the pot.
"I had two red cards," Moneymaker said sheepishly.'
Oh, and I did manage to go the entire tourney (~17 hours live play or so), without flopping a single set. I flopped a monstrous two pair once (and nothing stronger ever), losing that hand. GG.
Hopefully Chris takes it down, if I recall correctly his stack when our table broke at the end of Day2 was around 50bb.
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