| 24 Jul | Finally!Posted by PokerBarney on 1:30PM, 24th Jul 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
Finally, luck goes my way, and ends my OTM streak. A total of 9 games without cashing, then a 2nd place.
I played well towards the final table, basically pushbot poker, shoving AQ+ into raises. Thankfully, they held and I came into the final table as a middle stack. I took a few pots on value bets, stole from the weaker players (which I was pleased I could identify easily enough), and didn't run into any monsters.
Down to the final 5 and I had a big hand that I was probably due after so much horrible luck. I had J9s in the big blind, with one caller in mid-position. I triple raised, but he called anyway.
Flop was 846, two clubs. I bet 4800 into a pot of 8250, and was re-raised all in another 3000 or so. With a pot of about 21000 and 3000 to call, I couldn't fold (being given 7-1 odds). I called, he showed AK and I caught a 9 on the river to save me and put me into chip lead.
Once down to 3, the other large stack kept pushing all in. We were about even, and every time I raised his big blind he'd shove. I decided enough was enough and called his shove with A6o. It held against his KJs and put me at 54K vs 1K vs 13K.
Some scuffling later, me and the previous 1K stack were heads up with 53K vs 15K. He began pushing all in every hand, and I started getting absolute trash. A-high or K-high would've been enough to call him, and I eventually found a K3 to call his J8. Unfortunately, he won, and took the chip lead.
Two hands later I pushed K-high into his KQ which held, and I finished 2nd. I'm pleased with the game though, as I did manage to get into a winning situation by taking the risk with the A6o, and before that getting a bit lucky with the J9 (I was only a 60/40 dog). A shame my K didn't hold up, but I can live with it.
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