pkr.com – My recent Tournaments Part 2
www.pkr.com – With the tables broken to 2, and my aggressive plays beginning to backfire, I tightened up and considered my position. The blinds soon turned 10,000 chips into 7,000, and my situation was verging on critical. I had one orbit of play to double through in order to stand a chance, and as the hands went past, the big blind came back to round to me with (7d,8d).
Even though the player under the gun swiftly moved all in, I had no choice but to take my chance as I may not get another. I called, and the flop of (6d,9s,Qs) gave me an open end straight draw, although my opponents (A,Q) had hit. The turn brought another diamond, although not making my straight, but the Jack of diamonds gave me a flush on the river, and I was up to 14,000. Shortly afterwards I elminated the two short stacks on the table with (Q,Q), then (9,9), and we were at the final table.
I took 26,000 to the table, and made an excellent fold in the first half hour with (9,9) against what was shown afterwards as a (K,K). Players began falling until we were 5 handed and in the money, and I took a long time to decide after the chip leader had shoved over the top of a small raise. I had (As,Qs) and eventually folded the hand, seeing the big stack with (Ah,Kh) win the pot on the strength of Ace King high with no Queen on board. I eventually finished fourth, after the blinds ended up at 6,000/12,000 after almost 7 hours play. With 35,000 chips, I pushed on the big blind with (Kd,8d) and walked into (Kx,Qx). Overall though I picked up a nice amount of money for my troubles, and generally thought I played very well.
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