Team Chicago Out of US PokerBowl

Blah. It didn't work out. ZeeJustin busted 9th, then Scott Clements, then my teammate Jon Little. I busted Cody in 6th with A9o vs his shortstack's K6o. Five handed I doubled up Shannon Pendergrast with QdJx vs his black AK AIPF. The board gave me hope on Td 8d 4c 2d x. In fifth I busted one of Team New Jersey's players, Scott Pendergrast. He shoved 66 from the SB into my AK, and I turned a King. Four handed Eric Lynch crippled Seattle's Keith Bartlett with 99 vs A7o. I eliminated him the next hand with AJo vs his K6o. We entered 3 handed, and I had 165000ish to Eric Lynch's and Shannon Pendergrast's combined 135000ish. It's a redic spot to be in though because it's 2 against 1, and that really changes what I can do preflop. I was surprised to see they walked me two times out of the first 10 or 12 hands. I got some shoves in and was really starting to accumulate. Then, on the button I looked down at the Th and had an easy shove given the circumstances. Eric quickly called in the SB and Shannon Pendergrast folded. Eric showed JJ and I squeezed out another Ten with it, oops. I couldn't spike though :( Then, a crazy one came up. I had about 110000 at 4/8000 (800). Shannon shoved the button for 57000, and I found A4o for an easy reshove in the SB. Eric had me covered and overcalled. Pendergrast showed the best hand with A9o and Eric showed A8hh. The flop was 552, about as good as I could hope for without spiking with 4. The turn was the case Ace. I could not win any of the pot now, but I could chop the main and side pot with a King, Queen, Jack, Ten, or Five. I could also stay in the tournament by chopping the sidepot with Eric if one of the case three nines came. The river was a 9, so Eric and I tripled SP up. On the button I found 83cc on a basically any-two card shove for my last 52400. SP called in the SB and showed me K3ss, a nasty hand for me to see...giving me just 3 outs. The flop came Tc 7x 6x. The turn was a 7 and the river a 2.

I'm not sure what my plans are. I'm going to do one of three things. Stay another day and pack up all my stuff from Vegas storage and drive across the country to Alabama, Get on a plane to Buffalo, NY and then taxi up to Ontario for the WPT up there, or just catch a plane back to Alabama. I'm not really in the mood to play WPT Canada, I think.

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