Horse-Play

Jumped into the $5 HORSE at Poker.com which has a bigger field than the daytime tourneys. Thirty-three runners tonight and I played very well. I don`t recall making a single mistake until reaching the final table. I was pretty much the short-stack when I got there. Then I made a great call in the Om8 round that put me right back into the game. Unusually for me I made a boatload of chips in the hold-em round and had a 2-1 chip lead on the next player. Great feeling to have the chips to push players around and to call speculative hands.

We got rid of the bubble then whittled our way down to three where I lost the chip lead for a while. Third place was resolved and it was me and HORSE final table regular Marjan77 playing HU. We finished the 7 stud 8b round and I suggested we skip the hold-em round as neither of us likes it too much. It would have been pretty crazy, blinds were 2,500/5,000 with just 66,000 chips on the table evenly spread between us.

It must have been confusing for any of the onlookers if they`d missed the discussion. Both of us folding, showing and rabbiting and laughing about it. We resumed play in the Om8 round and Marjan took the win in just a few hands. He`d made a great recovery to be HU and although it was disappointing to lose, at least I lost to a good player and had a lot of fun playing.