Last blogger tournament I played in, I got 42nd out of 1500+ players, 10 away from the IPod. This time in the latest Wil Wheaton Invitational, I got knocked out in 21st out of 127, with 18th and up in the money. I was fortunate to get some pretty good cards early and play aggressive enough to steal a few pots and say around the top. A serious run of cold cards and a few thwarted steals dropped me back towards the middle/bottom of the pack. But then I took a good sized pot w/KK on a QQ8 flop to move up to 9900. A few hands later I got QQ and forced a raiser to fold. Then calamity.
PokerStars Game #2974485698: Tournament #14391236, Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2005/11/04 - 21:19:57 (ET)
Table '14391236 6' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: me (11700 in chips)
Seat 3: BoomerHawk (6700 in chips)
Seat 4: PhoebusX (13203 in chips)
Seat 5: xkm1245 (9183 in chips)
Seat 6: Toby039 (6074 in chips)
Seat 7: Boobie Lover (2030 in chips)
Seat 8: Guinness (5290 in chips)*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to me [Ah Ac]
PhoebusX: folds
xkm1245: folds
Toby039: raises 5424 to 6024 and is all-in
Boobie Lover: folds
Guinness: folds
me: raises 5424 to 11448
BoomerHawk: folds
*** FLOP *** [6c 8d Js]
*** TURN *** [6c 8d Js] [9s]
PhoebusX said, "ouch"
*** RIVER *** [6c 8d Js 9s] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
me: shows [Ah Ac] (a pair of Aces)
Toby039: shows [Jh Jc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
xkm1245 said, "craaaaaaaack"
Toby039 collected 12998 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12998 | Rake 0
Board [6c 8d Js 9s 3h]
Seat 2: me (small blind) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: BoomerHawk (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: PhoebusX folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: xkm1245 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Toby039 showed [Jh Jc] and won (12998) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 7: Boobie Lover folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Guinness (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Had a chance to be one of the chip leaders, but took a serious hit. Shortly after I got KK two off the button, raised to 1800, and got one caller. Flop came A74 rainbow and I was fairly sure that he had the A....but I wasn't positive and didn't want to be left w/5 BB. I pushed, he had AT, and I was out.
But it was fun and I'll definitely have to play again. And I learned that there are only two cities of Goteborg/Gothenborg in the entire world. One is in Sweden, and the other is in Nebraska. Yup, founded by Olof Bergstrom, native of Hassela, Sweden in 1882. And now you know.
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