Ended up coming 2nd in last night's main for just under 1k.
I ended up on a really sweet table at 8k, blinds about 150/300. It was the most passive table ever, played the same table for atleast an hour, not 1 player busted. I was able to just win a tone of small pots to get up to about 20k and into the money.
My chips were never at risk. Was about 5 or 6th out of 35. It was awesome, just kept chipping up with no risk to my stack, getting up to about 60k.
The 1st time my stack was at risk, was on the last 2 tables. Things had turned a bit, and had lost 20k, of my 60 k stack down about 40k, with 11/12 left.
I opened XX in the SB, BB 3 bet, I 4 bet jammed and he tank folded. It would be this player that would go onto win.
Managed to win a nice pot, with a set of
versus KQ on a Q high board for a full double up to about 95k, which put me 3/4 out of 9.
Lost a couple of all ins against shorties to put me back down to 40k. Grinded my 13-15 bigs for a while, managed to pick up KK against shorties AQ aipf, to get back up to about 80/90 k and the FT 5th/6, but there wasn't agreat deal in it amongst the shorter stacks.
Player quickly busted in 6th.
We look down at JJ UTG, min raise @ 2k/4k, BB clicks it back from 8k, to 12k, only 4k to call. We call, J high flop, he checks, we bet bet jam. He calls with KK, which put him down to 50k. We are the chip leader!
Couple of hands later, I knock the same player out with Ace 10, on xxxA board. He had ace 8.
4 handed we have 50% of the chips in play, 400kish, everyone else has 100k or under. The other 3 players are all regs. Was able to apply a lot of ICM pressure.
We min raise AQ UTG UTG plus 1 jams, BB also jams, they had 75k each. We call, 3 way all in 4 handed!
They both had about 12 bigs iirc, think I have to call. 88 and AK, 88's hitting a set.
Couple of hands later, we knocked the 3rd player out, to get to HU.
I had about 450k in chips, they had about 350k.
HU I played really bad. Played one of the worst hands I've ever played, moved all in on the river on the most ridiculous bluff that didn't make sense and was an easyish call with top pair.
That left me with 60k, got it in the next hand which I lost.
The winner played excellent through out, if you read this, very well done!
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