Friday, December 09, 2005

Busting Negreanu: Priceless

Well, I don't have a lot of time for details, but man, am I feeling pretty pimp right now.

So, finally I catch Daniel Negreanu setting up a SNG on FCP before registration closes. He also puts a bounty on him of a autographed FCP T-Shirt. Not bad. So I sign up, ready to play. Of course, he's in a hurry to go pick up his wife, so he sets it to turbo mode. Bad, Daniel. I digress.

Seatings drawn, and we're 4 handed, and there's the man of the hour at my table. Yay, here's my shot.

So on the last hand of the first level, Daniel gets dropped to about 50 chips when his top pair gets outkicked. And on the very next hand, he's in the SB, and I'm UTG with pocket jacks. Yes, this could be payoff. Raise standard, and he moves in, and all of a sudden, the BB raises me?!?! Something told me I was ahead, I really didn't put him on the three hands that could beat me, so I just move all-in, and if he could've beat me into the pot, he would've.

BB turns up pocket tens, and Daniel turns up J3s. Wow, I couldn't be in better shape. Well, I could've; Daniel couldn't have made my outs cased. So, if BB catches a ten, I'm almost drawing dead, and Daniel's literally drawing dead (save some diamonds). Flop comes blanks. Just hold up. Turn's a blank. One more, just hold up. River BLANK! I bust both of them and grab my bounty.

Would've been a whole lot more satisfying had I have been able to outplay him (yeah, right) post-flop, but I'll take that win!

I can still say I busted Daniel Negreanu. Fun times. Now to recoop a little bit of money I lost in these SNG's tonight (yeah, these multi table SNG's kill me!)...tomorrow.

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