3 Tournaments

1. Had about 7k in chips with about 1,500 left. Had Aces in the little blind. First position raise. I re-raise. He goes all in with AK before the flop. Ace flops along with a queen and a 2. Turn Jack, river 10.

2. Early on I had AK of diamonds. Flop comes King high with 2 diamonds. I get raised and put my chips in. He had a set. I make the flush on the turn. Board pairs on the river.

3. I have about 8k in chips and get moved to a table with one live player who is going all-in every hand. There are no other live players at the table. Just the 2 of us. He has about 40k in chips so I figure I will let him steal some blinds and try to double up once. I wait until I get the A-7 of diamonds. He goes all-in and turns over the 9-7 of clubs. He wins when a 9 comes on the river.

Trying to Qualify in order to Qualify

So another 3,500 player tournament.

I call with Q-Q in first position. Yeah I am looking to trap. It's early on and I want to go all-in with the hand.

Then a player calls and another player makes a medium-big raise - about 800 and then a donk from the small blind puts in all his chips.

I go over the top for a few more chips - and get 2 callers.

The other hands: QQ and 10-10 and the donk had 5-5 and made a straight.

The next hand I had a few chips, flopped the 2nd nut straight, but was all-in and a guy hit a gut shot for a bigger straight and I am gone.

Didn't feel bad because I had my chips in with the best of it.

Played in 6 sit and gos and won 2 of them so I made a few bucks.

Toasterhead Gets Knocked Out

I'd like to blame it on the fact that I was hungover, but I would have been better off not showing up.

One time I raised the minimum with aces, the flop came Q-J-2 and I got check raised for about 700 in chips. I put the guy all-in and he has Q-J. I get lucky and catch a 2 on the river and double up, but I am not feeling so great about my play.

Then 2 players call and I'm sitting on J-J. I have over 7,000 in chips and over 1,000 players have been knocked out so I am coasting along above the average. I go all-in here, figuring nobody will call. But why? I'm risking over 7,000 in chips and my tournament life in order to to win 600. Anybody with a better hand will certainly call. As it turns out the little blind has aces and I get knocked out.

Well I had 15 chips left and went all-in the next hand.

I didn't mind last week so much because I played as well as I could and a guy got really lucky on me, but I played terrible this week and deserved to lose and it doesn't sit too well.

I eased the pain with 2 hot dogs smothered in mustard and a big bowl of ice cream with hot fudge sauce sprinkled with peanut M & M's.

Maybe if I sleep for 3 months straight I will forget about this one.