Moving on...Jan-Peter Jachtmann next

In what must've been the shortest match of the tournament, I moved on to the second round by beating Juan Durin in just 18 minutes and 10 hands. Juan was a true gentleman and a Barcelona local. We traded some very small pots for the first 6 hands with the button winning almost all of them. I picked up JTdd and made it 550 on the button with blinds 1/200. Juan called. The flop came down Kc 9d 4d. Juan checked and I bet 650. He called. The turn brought the 6s and he checked again. I felt he was weak and maybe had just a 9, so I bet 1200. He quickly called. The turn was nice, the Kd, giving me a flush. I still was rather sure he had just a 9 though. He checked and I pondered and eventually bet 1625. He didn't take long to call and I showed my flush. He mucked, so I'm not sure what he had. Two hands later I ended the match. I limped on the button with 2 red tens and the intention of reraising. Juan made it 800 and I quickly made it 2350. Juan called. The flop beamed Ks Tc 4s, just beautiful. Juan checked and I bet 2050. He grabbed a mountain of red 1000 chips and made it 9000? I quickly said all-in and he called off his last 7000 or so with KQcc. I knew I had him about 10:1, but I wasn't out of the woods yet. Of course the turn card is a sweat, the 6c. The river comes off black, but it's the 6s, and I move on.

I went to rail to watch the Jan-Peter Jachtmann and Marcel Luske match after that. I would be playing the winner. Somewhat suprisingly Jan-Peter disposed of Marcel in 1 hour. They got it all-in for a rather big pot with Jan's 44 vs Marcel's AJ and the window card was a 4. I'd met Jan the night before, and he knew that I would potentially be his next round match. I stood with other spectators right behind the rail. If nothing else I wanted to get it in his head that I had observed his style of play. The German was constantly looking over his shoulders because I think he thought I could see his cards. I couldn't and wasn't trying to, but it was pretty funny to see how nervous he was. Also before my match Dave, Adam and I railed Charles "THE___END" Kassin against H/U circuit standout, Woody Deck. Kassin, a 19 year old 5'3"ish former $100/200 NL player,talked as much trash live as he does online :) Deck called off a TON of chips at one point with ATcc and was all-in against Kassin's 99. A final board of KQxAx though doubled Deck and he eventually moved on. I'm heading back to the casino now though to eat dinner and maybe play some side games or online. Tomorrow's match is at 19:00 local time (Noon CDT).