still glowing from the 45k

It had been a rough two weeks. No moneys in any tournaments - but this hopefully is the beginning of a nice run. Would be a good time to have it, with the Poker Room Grand this weekend.

Now, it's easy for me to say that it's been all bad luck, but that's not true. I've made some horrible decisions during the past two weeks. I don't think it's a stretch to say that until yesterday, at least once a day I had made a move that, IMMEDIATELY upon clicking the action, I said "wtf? that was ridiculous." On some of the occasions I said that AS I did the action. Yesterday in the 45k I had none of those. I don't think I made one poor decision all tournament.

Even the hand that crippled me wasn't a bad decision. This is the last hand at the 10k/20k level, 15k/30k follows. The players on my left seemed quite tight in the time I'd been with them:


*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [3d Kh]
ajmaster333: folds
AppSt2004: folds
AppSt2004 said, "ha"
PLAYAMAN has timed out
PLAYAMAN: folds
PLAYAMAN is sitting out
howSgoing: folds
PLAYAMAN has returned
THEOSU: raises 157768 to 177768 and is all-in
bille2222: calls 165870 and is all-in
abbot: folds
*** FLOP *** [Th Td 5d]
*** TURN *** [Th Td 5d] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Th Td 5d 8c] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bille2222: shows [Qh As] (two pair, Tens and Fives)
THEOSU: shows [3d Kh] (two pair, Tens and Fives - lower kicker)
bille2222 collected 378740 from pot


So there I sat for 5 minutes with 1898 left, blinds 15k/30k with a 1500 ante. I was fortunate to pick up AJ and get protection from QJ - the ace played. I got to 12k. I took a hand off, then "pushed" with TT and won a flip from KJ - moving into the top 27 at the same time, which was a nice accomplishment considering. That got me to 48k. Next hand, UTG+1, I push with K2 of spades. I ran into AJ and AK, but the board made a club flush, and no one had a club. I took 56k. UTG with K9, I put it in again, ran into AQ, and flopped the straight - 168k. Just like that.

I folded my blinds, pushed A8s and AKo in the next orbit, folded my blinds again, then pushed A8, A9 and AA on consecutive hands (showing the AA). I was hoping someone got sick of it, but no luck. I folded the blinds again, pushed AT, when it got back to my big blind. My stack got to 340k by this point, and the guy who limped was an enormous stack...



*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Jh 4h]
DoggerPA: folds
apestyles [observer] said, "haha"
PLAYAMAN: calls 40000
ajmaster333: folds
toofatforyou: folds
AppSt2004: folds
Seanbob1: folds
dicstache: folds
howSgoing: folds
THEOSU said, "you are wise to play cautious"
THEOSU: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8h 6h]
THEOSU: bets 80000
PLAYAMAN: raises 360000 to 440000
THEOSU: calls 223736 and is all-in
PLAYAMAN said, "nooooooo"
DoggerPA said, "omg"
WillyDope [observer] said, "HOLD"
Saratzila [observer] said, "lol"
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*** TURN *** [Qh 8h 6h] [5d]
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "YEAH"
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8h 6h 5d] [Js]
WillyDope [observer] said, "BOOM"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Jh 4h] (a flush, Queen high)
PLAYAMAN: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
PLAYAMAN said, "wow"
THEOSU collected 725472 from pot
DoggerPA said, "nh"
gobboboy [observer] said, "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 725472 Rake 0
Board [Qh 8h 6h 5d Js]


The folks rooting for me are mostly 2+2ers who got wind of my comeback.

That was about as interesting as it got. I won a big coinflip with 88 v. AK to put me over a million, but I used up all my big hands to get there, as I didn't pick up much from there on out. I tried to steal to sustain the stack, but I got more action than I wanted from them, and leaked down to 600k, when I went out.




PokerStars Game #3901354327: Tournament #19224800, Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2006/02/08 - 05:00:10 (ET)
Table '19224800 116' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: oneman69 (936386 in chips)
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (2390422 in chips)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (630724 in chips)
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (2616169 in chips)
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM (470164 in chips)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 (1488276 in chips)
Seat 8: THEOSU (582272 in chips)
Seat 9: howSgoing (1330587 in chips)
oneman69: posts the ante 3000
Seanbob1: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts the ante 3000
PLAYAMAN: posts the ante 3000
TAMPA_SLIM: posts the ante 3000
bizzyb32: posts the ante 3000
THEOSU: posts the ante 3000
howSgoing: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts small blind 30000
PLAYAMAN: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Ah Tc]
TAMPA_SLIM: folds
bizzyb32: folds
THEOSU: raises 519272 to 579272 and is all-in
howSgoing: folds
oneman69: raises 354114 to 933386 and is all-in
Seanbob1: folds
BIGFELLA44: folds
PLAYAMAN: folds
*** FLOP *** [3h Jh 8h]
*** TURN *** [3h Jh 8h] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [3h Jh 8h 9c] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Ah Tc] (high card Ace)
oneman69: shows [7h 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
oneman69 collected 1272544 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1272544 Rake 0
Board [3h Jh 8h 9c Kc]
Seat 2: oneman69 showed [7h 7d] and won (1272544) with a pair of Sevens
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: THEOSU showed [Ah Tc] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: howSgoing folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Apparently, I was the talisman, because the player that busted me won.

Hell of a ride it was.