Jon Kalmar says...

WSOP Day 15 - Jon Kalmar

Wednesday 17 Jun 2009

I played cash today and I have never seen so many sets. Unfortunately not one of them was in front of me. This run is really starting to take it’s toll and if it doesn’t end soon I fear for my sanity.

It is extremely difficult to motivate yourself to write something when you have only bad things to write about. Strummer is running no better and he has changed his flight to depart a day early, and god knows I feel like joining him. I haven’t won a bean since he arrived and I’ll be glad to see the back of the jinxing jester :o). I made him promise to take all the bad luck back with him - all of it. He is playing some online sats this weekend for the main event I hope to see him back if truth be known, just don’t tell him.

In the 5/10 today I was $2k down in the first hour. Cooler after cooler, outdraw after outdraw. After getting my pocket aces cracked on the turn in a heads up pot by pocket queens I nearly lost it. I got up for a walk and I have to confess I broke one of my rules for the trip and played some craps. Losing $1000 never felt so good. Bad, I know, but trust me if I had hung around the cash table I would have lost more. I returned fired up ready to smash the table and after a few moves I pulled $1k back, however it wasn’t to last and I soon ran top 2 pair into top set. I decided enough was enough and decided to quit $3200 down (admittedly $1000 was at craps).

Tomorrow is another day..

Set Watch

I would love to list the sets I have run into but I would be typing so much I’d have no more time to play.

22 – 4673K board
99 - A J 6 10 I raise have to pass on turn after betting flop
77 – K J 10 I call raise and pass on flop
55 – 4 J 9 same thing
77 – 9 10 J J A I had folded on flop
TT – 3 4 7 A K Reraised flop had to check it down but it did hold up, crikey!
AA – 2 8 10 Q 5 Lose a fortune to pocket queens, induces and tilty crap session
TT – J Q 7 4 Have to fold to bet on turn, he showed me pocket jacks (must be nice)
99 – 2 3 4 T K Bet flop and have to check it down, he had K5 obviously
55 – 3 7 2 3 6 folded to raise on flop. Some one had pocket 7’s, obviously