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December 14, 2008

So this morning i woke up, did an hour of yoga, 15 more minutes of meditation focusing extra hard on my posture. Today was the day of the 15k bellagio 5 diamond. My buddy Jeremy is in town staying at my place, so we headed up there around noon to play. I managed to bust out 30 minutes into level 2. Blinds started at 50-100 and we got 45k chips. I must not be very good at poker.

SO! i get home, and am planning on quitting poker for the rest of the year, but there are good PLO games! This is my plo story, and the biggest pot i have ever lost!

Full Tilt Poker Game #9499025861: Table Barn (deep 6) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 22:24:36 ET - 2008/12/14

Seat 1: OMGClayAiken ($80,000)

Seat 2: Urindanger ($129,677)

Seat 3: Gus Hansen ($149,296.50)

Seat 4: David Benefield ($108,098)

Seat 5: patatino ($51,421.50)

Seat 6: Brian Hastings ($74,197)

David Benefield posts the small blind of $200

patatino posts the big blind of $400

The button is in seat #3

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to David Benefield [Kd Qd Kh Jd]

Brian Hastings folds

OMGClayAiken folds

Urindanger raises to $1,200

Gus Hansen calls $1,200

David Benefield raises to $5,200

patatino folds

Urindanger folds

Gus Hansen has 15 seconds left to act

Gus Hansen calls $4,000

*** FLOP *** [Tc 9d 2d]

David Benefield has 15 seconds left to act

David Benefield bets $8,400

Gus Hansen has 15 seconds left to act

Gus Hansen has requested TIME

Gus Hansen calls $8,400

*** TURN *** [Tc 9d 2d] [8c]

David Benefield has 15 seconds left to act

David Benefield checks

Gus Hansen has 15 seconds left to act

Gus Hansen has requested TIME

Gus Hansen bets $24,400

David Benefield has 15 seconds left to act

David Benefield has requested TIME

David Benefield raises to $94,498, and is all in

Gus Hansen calls $70,098

David Benefield shows [Kd Qd Kh Jd]

Gus Hansen shows [7c 3s Jc Qs]

*** RIVER *** [Tc 9d 2d 8c] [6c]

David Benefield shows a straight, Queen high

Gus Hansen shows a flush, Jack high

Gus Hansen wins the pot ($217,793) with a flush, Jack high

David Benefield adds $20,000

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $217,796 | Rake $3

Board: [Tc 9d 2d 8c 6c]

Seat 1: OMGClayAiken didn't bet (folded)

Seat 2: Urindanger folded before the Flop

Seat 3: Gus Hansen (button) showed [7c 3s Jc Qs] and won ($217,793) with a flush, Jack high

Seat 4: David Benefield (small blind) showed [Kd Qd Kh Jd] and lost with a straight, Queen high

Seat 5: patatino (big blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 6: Brian Hastings didn't bet (folded)

goodbye for now.

-David

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Dec 14, 08 22:52:07

I watched this hand david, pretty sick.

I was wondering about meditation. I dont know much about it, but i thought the objective is to clear your mind completely and just focus on being as in tuned to the present as possible. I've tried doing this before and i always have a problem keeping thoughts from coming in. I know your supposed to just observe the tought and then continue, but i've never gone more than like 2 minutes w/o that happening.

Any tips or good books/sites to read would be cool, thanks

TJ

overbet56

Dec 15, 08 17:27:15

pretty sick david. gus did the same thing to phil the other day too. phil had top set and the flush draw and gus backdoored the club flush. gl hope it turns around

dtat0529

Dec 17, 08 06:21:28

Hope you had good Yoga and meditation as I assume poker did not give positive feelings for your day!

Mikodeemus