True Grinder

Getting ready to watch Gianna in the Copenhagen tournament. We woke up pretty early. Everything in Europe seems to open up pretty late in the morning. Went down to the lobby around 7:30am and it was completely dead. The casino doesn't even open until 2pm.

So I went back up to the room and played some $1/$2 5-card draw on Paradise and signed up for the $50. Just now made the money, and some guy named trugrinder decides to let me know that I'm not the real Dutch Boyd. "You saw him on tv and that's why you made your name the same as his," he said. He said he knew the REAL Dutch...

I tried to figure out a way to make some sort of bet or something... instead I think I'm going to just try and bust him. ;)

===== UPDATE ====

Ended up coming in 8th in the tournament... trugrinder was still playing when I left, and had come back to about 8k in chips after almost being small-blinded out. I got a little over-aggressive with my preflop all-ins. Did one in the SB against the chip leader and then the next hand tried it again on the button with KJo. Had about 3/4th of his stack at that point and was in 3rd chip position. Figured he'd need a pretty nice hand to call, and he woke up with AJo. No help for my naked king.

The thing I love about busting out on Paradise is first, you go out in a little poof of smoke. Second, when you get knocked out they popup a little congratulations note. "Congratulations! You just came in 8th. We know you had your eye on the big prize, and are a little disappointed right now. But don't be! You're always a winner to Team Paradise, even though you haven't won a tourney outright for over a month. Now you can play three more tournaments with the money you won. And just think... you could have come in 9th if that 89s hadn't sucked out against the AKo."

Still... a C-note don't come for free.