Yesterday gotta be up there with one of the best days/nights ever.
Won't drag this post out with lots of hands histories, but I'll mention the two/three key hands that helped me win.
1)
We have 15 bbs on the bubble and it folded round to us in the SB and we jammed on the tightest guy I've ever met. He had 16bigs, and tanked and called with Jacks. Was really sick how he woke up with a hand, and morale would've been low if I'd gone out then. I hadn't cashed for 16 tournaments in a row for team eureka and I was feeling the pressure, plus makeup approaching 5 figures eek! I think it was standard, though some disagreed, I think the next best play is 2.5x/folding, but I thought he'd peel too much and I didn't wanna have to cbet and then do half my stack. He would've folded 77 and AT to a jam he was so tight, so I pick up the dead money about 95% of the time so I thought jamming was best.
Obviously we're golden the board runs out
and we double and leave the guy crippled. Pleased for him though he managed to squeeze into the money somehow!
2)
Really strange hand. I'm 3 handed with 700k/ 1.5m in play, Slovakian dude has 650k, Moroccan dude has 150k. The Slovakian dude has just said to me behind the dealers back that we should stay out of each others way! I obviously didn't agree to anything but thought it'd help me if he didn't go after me.
Anyway, I raise the button with Aces and he 3bets the sb. He's been really tight all final and after the conversation we've just had, I thought he was really nutted here, probably AQ+ TT+. I 4bet and he 5b jams! I think he must have KK/QQ, AK maybe JJ here. Probably the other two aces!
He had
! So bizarre! Just goes to show how surprising people can be. I flopped top set for no sweat of course.
So had 1.35m to 150k heads up, should have it locked up, then he doubles limping the button with T8o, I set him in with AJ and he tank calls and wins, then doubles again winning a flip and a few hands later and I'm down to 400k! Disaster! He's wanting to deal every 5 minutes and getting really offended and upset when I say no. He jammed QT and I found dem aces again, doubled, then set him in with K9 he snaps Q9 and we hold for the win
SO FUN!
Was funny to win with K9, cos I've been getting a hard time all week from everyone about a spewy play I made in the main with K9 and I said before day 2 that I really wanna win the comp with K9 to stick it in their eyes!
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