Happy open line Thursday, Rickies.

We are the Junkies.

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Got a four-man junk crew this open line Thursday morning.

I'm Cakes at Money Metal Cakes on your Twitter at Cakes Flops on your Instagram.

I'm joined as always by Jason Bishop. What's up? Happy Thursday, boys. What's up? John Paul Flame is here. What's up, Cakesy? You are decked out in your MGM National Harvard Year. I am, yes. I came straight from there last night. And Eric Bickle here, too. I want to hear about it. I mean, it's a, it's a tale of woe. It's a tale that's been told many times. We like that tale. Where eight players cashed, and I got bounced in 12th place. So I did exactly what I hate to do. I play. Now, I love playing poker. It's fun. Yeah, it's a great time. It's a community thing. You get to hang out with people, meet some new people. It's fun.

But when you're close to the money and then you don't make the money and then you get four hours of broken sleep. Yeah. Because you're running through things in your head, like how you could have gotten into the money. It's frustrating sometimes. Oh, I'm sure it is.

So that's, you know, it's a little bit raw because I went to bed at 12, 15, 12, 20.

But it's all good.

I'll run it back again next month and hope to make the cash, which has been elusive.

I'm old for 2026 at this point in cashing in my own event.

Give me the breakdown on the last hand you had.

Or key hands. Well, I mean, the ending hand was I had King 10 suited.

I was like, this is about as good as it gets for the stack that I have.

I got my last 100K in.

Guy with a mountain of chip said, I want to win your bounty. He had King Queen. I didn't get any help. Boom. To the showers. Was there another hand during the tournament that just killed you? Not really. It was more of a slow bleed than anything. I won three bounties. I was like cruising along. I was doing okay. Took some hits and then.

So you won some cash?

Yeah, I want some cash. I went a little bit in the cash game beforehand. But I want the tournament results. You said though that it was running through your mind. It was still end of the day, end of the night positive because you won money. It was a net positive. You said you were struggling to sleep because you're running, it was running through your mind.

Did you have your beer at night?

No. positive because you won money. It was a net positive. You said you were struggling to sleep because you're running, it was running through your mind. Did you have your beer at night? I had ample beers leading up to. Okay. I had a big Sapporo black while I was having my, my sushi dinner. And then I had a couple more over at Voltajia with some buddies who were saddled up to the bar. Gotcha.

And then I had to slam on the brakes because that's like, that was like almost four beers.

And that was before seven?

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