So Damn Close

So I put a few bucks on today for 4 tourneys. I totally botched two of them and made an okish run in one and a deep run in the other. 


This first one was the Big 8.80 of which I started off pretty bad then ran up some chips got down to push/fold stack and ran it up on a heater of 3 hands and then I was 3x the tourney average. Held for a while, I felt like I was playing pretty solidly and picked my spots carefully. The end result was of course, going card dead again and having to shove with AJdd from the big blind and ran into QQ lol...here's the hand. I bet villain was sweating bullets.


EDIT: Ok, so I just realized that I wasn't SUPER short on chips, I was attempting a squeeze...which almost worked.

Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 800/1600 Blinds, Ante 200 (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB (t70300)
Hero (BB) (t27755)
UTG (t24883)
UTG+1 (t36384)
MP1 (t71137)
MP2 (t67221)
MP3 (t32415)
CO (t28896)
Button (t10219)


Preflop: Hero is BB with , 
2 folds, MP1 bets t3200, MP2 calls t3200, 3 folds, SB calls t2400, Hero raises t25955, MP1 raises t48710, 2 folds

Flop: (t61510) , ,  (2 players)

Turn: (t61510)  (2 players)

River: (t61510)  (2 players)

Total pot: t61510

Results:
Hero had J, A (two pair, Aces and Jacks).
MP1 had Q, Q (three of a kind, Queens).
Outcome: MP1 won t63310

PokerStars Tournament #573011336, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $8.00/$0.80 USD

4791 players

Total Prize Pool: $38328.00 USD 

Tournament started 2012/05/19 12:00:00 AT [2012/05/19 11:00:00 ET]

Dear madman1701,

You finished the tournament in 284th place. A USD 21.08 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Next up was the Big $11. I made a deep run in this one. I almost wanna puke considering that 1st place was $12k. Usually when I go this deep in a tourney I go all the way, but I am still happy for the cash. This tourney started off good and I held my own for quite a while before getting card dead and people just playing back at me all over the place, it was getting pretty frustrating but I kept cool and kept my patience. I got lucky in a few spots where I found myself shoving pre-flop against steals and getting called; which is nice because you usually need to get lucky a couple of times to make it deep. It ended with me shoving 66 from the small blind with 11BB against a big stack who min raised UTG+1 and he called with K8cc flop was K high so GG me.

PokerStars Tournament #573010496, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00 USD
8632 players
Total Prize Pool: $86320.00 USD 
Tournament started 2012/05/19 15:00:00 AT [2012/05/19 14:00:00 ET]

Dear madman1701,

You finished the tournament in 71st place. A USD 123.43 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


In the real world here, I will be leaving next week for a few days for a small job. Was supposed to be about 2 weeks work but the client cancelled a weeks worth of the work and left us with about 3-4 days worth..lol. We will be hearing back from the client on Tuesday (hopefully) about the job in Manitoba. Hopefully they will give us permission to mobilize so we can get the show on the road soon.