Greatest Cardsman in all of Prance

The re-buy plan didn't go well. I got all my luck durring the re-buy period so was only able to do the one re-buy to start and the double add-on. Which isn't as bad as the second phase of the plan not working, I didn't srvive day one.

This allowed me to play yesterday's $5,000 where I found myself seated to the left of an old friend from last years main event. When I say old friend I mean like The Joker is an old friend of Batman. I wont give his name cause I don't want to make him hate me any more than he already does and I won't tell you which european country he is from either. We will just use a fictional name and counrty. Lets call him Sabrice Foulier from Prance.

We drew the same table at the main event last year on day two and were by far the big stacks at the table, but I think I started with quite a bit more than he did. He was the only player I knew and I barely knew his name. We had probably played at a table before but I am not sure. He had made one TV table where he finished 5th at Bay 101. He does however appear to fancy himself the greatest cardsman in all of Prance.

We were sitting in seats 3 and 7, so should be perfect for us to avoid unnescessary conffrontations and play against the short stacked amatures that comprised the rest of the table. But this is not how the greatest cardsman in all of Prance plays the game, not even in the most important tournamnent of the year. He tried to get in every pot I played, he was after me without a doubt.

He managed to double through me at one point, after calling a large re-raise with pocket sixes and flopping a set against my queens and afterwards had twice as many chips as I did. He still kept comming after me all day and began to steam incredibly as I slowly regained the chip lead at the table. He seemed to care more about busting me (who knows why) than accumalating chips, which was my one and only concern.

He was a thorn in my side, and I wish he would have left me alone, but he was far more his own worst enemy by going after the biggest stack and most experienced player at the table. He wound up limping into the money the next day and busting 420th(one of his bigger cashes). He had a chance for a huge cash earlier that year at the LA Poker classic where he was a big chipleader going into the money bubble, but bubbled himself somehow, probably steamming and attacking other big stacks.

So when we started play yesterday, he was obviously still on tilt from last year. He began talking to himself, in Prench, as soon as I won a pot from him and began openly calling me a "Lucksack" after the second, and when a big bluff didnt work on me,he actually threw his cards in on the next hand so that they hit me, softly(he appologized for that). He tried emersing himself in the latest Cardplayer to make it through level one, which he did, but when the blinds went up in level 2 he put down the Cardplayer and was soon sent off to douche before the first break( apparently that is what they do in Prance instead of hiiting the showers).

The greatest cardsman in all of Prance did have the last laugh on me though. He was free to go out and enjoy the Las Vegas sunshine, after only 90 minutes and I had to play another 11 hours before getting knocked out, when one of our cardplayer family "shoved" over the top of my 3k open raise under the gun for 21k more out of the small blind with A-9 off, which crushed my pocket tens. I won't even make up a phoney name for him, as I like him, and he can blog back at me here on Cardplayer.

Today I am back at it $2000 No limit.