dont worry snoopy im in the same band as you.....
my first live comp ever was a 30 rebuy at yarmouth about a year ago, there was about 35 runners i think. The prize pool was still huge as the players are quite loose there and its not uncommon for a few guys to have 10 rebuys!
anyway about an hour in i found myself and Coca919 who is also on blonde sitting next to each other, at first i thought this would be good but it turned out not to be.....
i had the chiplead at this point and was very excited as first was around 1500, a lot of dollar!
next to me Coca919 is the second chipleader, so we're both thinking "right we're in for a big payday here".
little was i to know the little B****rd would badly beat me for a HUGE pot.
im in BB with 22 (not great i know, but it was still early in my poker career!) and a middle position player who regularly shouts "chips" during the rebuy period made it 4x BB
Coca919 in sb flat calls and so do i.
FLOP A J 2
coca checks, i check (with trips), and loosey goosey fancies it and pushes his stack in (his stack was about a 1/4 of mine) and coca flat calls in the SB, i say to my dear friend "im all in mate" furiously trying to wink at him to tell him look dont call i have you beat.
To my surprise he says "ive got to call", so im like ok then if you fancy it. So we're 3 way all in. A HUGE side pot of between me and coca (about 22000 and the main pot with about 8000), seeing as starting chips are 1500 thats quite a lot still in the rebuy period.
Loosey Goosey flips over KQ for a gutshot draw and Coca919 flips over AT

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I look at the board and it takes me 5 seconds to realise that the only card i dont want to see is a 10
low and behold the turn is a T, im thinking lucky fu**

to the guy whos hit his gutshot. yet still im not that pissed off because ive got the side pot.........NO I HAVENT
River T makes Coca full house AATTT and my full house 222TT is beaten so coca take massive pot of 30000 in remarkable fashion and said in a slightly agressive tone of voice "you owe me a drink". I went all in with JT offsuit next hand for 2000 chips and got done by AK fair play. I was on TILT!
Coca went on to finish 2nd and to his credit he gave me 50 of the 800 he took!
Pokers a funny old game!