Well I’m out … It was tough starting short stacked. Finally get AK and push only to run into AA, not much more to do when so short in chips. Was officially 48 out of 2,200 players … another day tomorrow.
As frustrated as I get from being bumped, later, I have to put the whole tournament into perspective. We started with 3,000 in chips, I got down to 800 in chips and came back big. Here’s what happened … was just getting killed on every premium hand and couldn’t win a pot. A pre flop raise by a very tight player was only 300 to me, I only had 800 and was dealt 9/8 of diamonds, a hand I like. Figured I’d have to shove no matter what, I see an 8 in the door and was going to go .. but then saw another one on the flop. I check and the other two players check. The turn is a blank (figured if it was an ace I was in trouble) so I tossed my last 500 chip in the pot. Pre flop raiser tosses in a 500 chip and flips over aces, only to see my set of 8′s … so I was saved and was able to parlay that into a final 3% of the field .. not too bad Queen I should tell myself more often, not too bad.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Are you kidding me???!!! – You had a fantastic run and should be very proud. I was following your progress from Foxwoods. I thought for sure you were taking that one down.- I took my Mom up there for the weekend. I played in a tourn Sunday with almost 500 and finished at 26 outside the money but thrilled that I lasted as long as I did and stayed so healthy in chips all the way through till my full house (JJJAA) went up against and lost full house (AAAJJ). SHORT. Final hand was shorter stack goes all in. I call with 10 10.
Flop was 6,8,7,9. I pushed, he calls with a J 10 beating my straight. Talk about 2 bad beats!!!Even though I was out, I was thrilled at my preformance and lenght of time in the tourn. Prior to my class with Annie Duke I was always bounced out within the first hour.
Good luch in your next one,
Cat