Late last night, I decided to fire up some games. I am very conscious at the moment of how I haven't been cashing in my MTTS and feel that my old bad habit of playing my 45 player SNG game in them has crept back in. While it is an optimal style in the turbo-ish 45 player format, it is too loose for the large MTTs. With that in mind I tightened up  a bit and played a $10 rebuy. There were 600 entrants and  at the break I had ammassed a chipstack of 12K so didn't add-on. (I did do a double buy-in at the start). From there I coasted for an hour - my stack remaining much the same. That was until I woke up with pocket Kings in the BB. An EP raiser had made it 700 to go and the SB had called. I decided to make a small-ish raise as I didn't want my continue bet to commit me in the event that an ace peeled off on the flop. I made it 2200 and the EP raiser tanked befoe shoving. The SB folded and I called. He flipped up 66 and flopped a six. I was left with 36 chips. The blinds were 120/240 with a 25 ante. I was obviously all-in next hand but that permitted me the opportunity to tell my opponent (L1verpoolFC) how well he had played. He started giving me shit - he said "I probably ruined your night, huh?" I told him that I was happy with his call before the six flopped so it would be foolish to complain about it now.

So anyway, I'm all-in with 9-2 versus three opponents. The flop comes AK10 - one of the limpers bet and the other two fold. GG me, huh? Well you'd think, especially seeing as he turned up A10. However, my night wasn't ruined yet. The turn came Q and the river J. We chopped the spoils - well I got my fair proportion and had successfull quadrupled my stack. AQ the next hand was a no-brainer (not that I would have folded any 2). The flop came an ace and my hand held. I had 500 chips. JQ the next hand was good enough too and again I won the pot, getting in behind an raise in mid-pos with 88. I immediately got moved to a new table with my 1475 chips. I folded a hand and then pushed my 44 the next, stealing the blinds. With almost 2K, I at least had a bit of wiggle room. Two orbits later and one more double up, I had 6K. Pocket aces tripled be up 15 minutes later and I was among the chipleaders again. By the next break, I had 27K in chips. I popped in on L1verpoolFC to see how he was gettin on. He has 12K. Two hands later, he was all-in and out. Why didn't I offer him a last-longer!

The bubble approcahed and I got frisky, turning my 27K into 41K in one orbit through pure aggression. By the next break I had just over 90K and was 6th of 40. Sadly though, it wasn't to be. The tournament chipleader made an EP raise to 4 times the BB. That, for me, smelled like 88-1010 so I repopped him with AK for half my stack. He tanked and shoved. I called and he showed JJ. I didn't improve and was eliminated. If I had won that race, I would have gone chipleader just 90 minutes after being reduced to 36 chips. From there, who knows? Maybe I would have won the whole enchilada. I could have called myself Jack frickin' Strauss!

 


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