Thursday, February 14, 2008

Of Course...

Late in the game. You play tight aggressive as usual. Pick up few hands then get short <10 bb's. Run JJ vs. KK pre-flop (other player is also shortstacked). You are now down to <4 bb's. Of course you pick up a few hands and climb back to still <10 bb's. The blinds climb and it is bubble time. Time to get aggressive, there's no cash for 4th place. Of course you get it all in behind this time and run K7 into QQ from the second smallest stack, of course he calls...then the huge stack that hasn't played badly all tourney, but hasn't really played that well either calls with 98o. Flop delights you with K 3 7 rainbow. "Sweet" you are thinking as you also remember all of those times you've been on the QQ end and wanted to reach through the computer screen and strangle the guy with K7....but hey, what goes around comes around right? Then the turn brings an offsuit J....you feel that pit in your stomach and your mind quickly wanders..."i'm home free" you think as the T of hearts plops down on the board. Of course the computer lags behind for about 2 seconds while it tries to figure out, as do you if you in fact won the pot as you ~should have...then it's pushed to Mr. Big Stack with 98o who was probably playing the odds, and you realize that, sure enough, he just hit runner, runner straight to take you both out. You quickly check the hand history and realize that you were the shortest stack, so even though both of you were all in, and you had the second best hand, you still get nothing. And so it is, before you can even close the hand history window the tourney is already over in one heads-up hand where Mr. Big Stack of course picks up a small pair and wins his race against QT....OF COURSE

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