The hand where I accumulated enough chips to make the final table came after the first break when my KK ran into AA and QQ. All the money went in before the flop, but I spiked a King on the turn to knock out smizmiatch and crippled Zeem.
A while later I was one of the big stacks at the table I raise with TT and get called by Smokkee who limps UTG. The flop is 456 rainbow so I bet the pot and he calls. Bells go off for some reason. I am giving him credit for a good hand because he limped from UTG and smooth called my raise and flop bets. The turn is a Q and we both check. The river is another 4 and he bets out 3600, after some thought I muck what turned out to be the best hand, he showed A8h. I felt that at that point in the tournament it was not worth it to lose the chips.I basically fold my way to the final table going from chip leader to average stack. I took some small pots, nothing of note though.
At the final table I get real short on the money bubble and begin pushing like a donkey in order to stay alive. The blinds were so high I had no choice if I wanted to remain in the game I needed to steal and get lucky. I keep on getting Ace-poop in the SB when it is folded to around and push on Smokkee's blind. I manage to do this 4 or 5 times when he says he will call with any two cards if I do it again. I wasn't trying to pick on him, I was desperate for chips and he was to my left. Well the next blind is folded to me, I push with A5o and he is a man of his word and calls me. He calls with 82 suited and I double up. A5o is gold!
Three-way it was me, Hoyazo and TripJax, what a brutal game. Each of us was short stacked, dead even, or 2-1 chip leader multiple times. My hat is off to Hoyazo and TripJax for a great match.
2 comments:
You took a lot of heat at that final table. I don't remember many of your hands, but I saw nothing wrong with your pushing with a low stack in that situation.
Can't remember if you did a lot of calling with them like people were saying.
Good gamin' with you doc...
obv, i was getting annoyed with all the pushing.
it turned out to be a real race when i flopped a flush draw with my sOOted crap against ur A5o.
i did the same thing to "poker enthusiast" in a blogger tournament a while back. he kept pushing his short stack into my BB from the SB when it was folded to him. i told him, i'd call with ATC the next time he did it. he pushed with a decent hand and i won a 40/60 race to knock him out.
i see so many wacky races won with junk hands at the end of token sng's that i'm not afraid to call with ATC heads up.
GL at the tables.
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