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#693 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #14 – Round 2 – Hearts & Diamonds – Orel Hershiser’s Got Balls
Just as I finished the last post, at 2:20, Scott Fischman and David Williams got it all-in. Williams got away with limping with pocket aces. Fischman had K-5, caught a King-high flop, and the aces stood up. David Williams took the lead but I still don’t like the move.
The instant that hand ended, someone knocked at the railing next to my corner bleacher seat. I thought it was someone from the production coming to complain – standing up in the shot? putting my junk on the speaker? stealing cookies from the snack table?
It was Orel Hershiser. He’s back today and he brought me, as he promised, an autographed baseball. I swear, I would have thought he was a good guy even if he didn’t come back and bring the baseball, but this way it saves me the spectacle of making a fool of myself and even pretending otherwise.
On a very short stack, Scott Fischman is soon all-in again. Williams limped, Fischman pushed, Williams called. Scott shows 2-5o, but picks up a deuce on the flop and another on the turn to beat David’s Q-7.
Blinds are high and this is gonna go fast. At 2:28, Harman is all-in v. Tran and Elezra is all-in against Lindgren. Erick Lindgren busted Eli with a better two-pair. Jennifer doubled up to stay alive against Kenny Tran. (Kenny limped with 4-4. Jennifer moved all-in on her short stack and Kenny called. Jen had 5-5 and it held up, but what kind of move is that by Kenny? I’d presume – everybody would – that the World Series heads-up champion knows more than me about how to play heads-up but why guarantee a coin flip? If Jennifer was on a steal with 9-6, he’s “trapped” her into a coin flip. With her short stack, that’s a good proposition: steal or flip a coin. But maybe I’m missing something really advanced here.)
At 2:32, Sam Farha eliminated Peter Eastgate to move into the Sweet 16. And at 2:38, Brad Garrett left the building, busting to Glen Chorny but with so many outs that, before he left, he promised the dealer “the golden shower of your life if you give me a spade.”
Shortly thereafter, Jennifer Harman lost her last chips to Kenny Tran, with A-J v. J-J. Meanwhile, in the background, Scott Fischman and David Williams played in silence.
Scott got very close to joining Huckleberry Seed for the fifth time in the Sweet 16, but David Williams’s 4-4 fended off, flush draws, counterfeit higher pairs, and an overcard.
That ended the round at 2:57. After shaking hands with Scott Fischman, David Williams shot out of his seat and said to a friend, “Let’s go buy a suit.”
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