Tournament of Champions? Huh? Me? I'm in!

EDIT - linked everyone, added cmitch to the list of railers. Thanks for the comments everyone.

I'll post details later. I'm exhausted. But I gotta do this now. 2:20am? Perfect. I'll get about 5hrs of sleep.



So I'm in the 27 seat (I believe it's actually 26 now since xxMagicianxx won two seats, right?) Tournament of Champions to compete for a $18,000 Australia package. To say that I got lucky tonight is an understatement. Honestly, I'm not even gonna try to tell you how I played well or whatever... because when you get the cards that I got, it really doesn't matter. The grossest of them all was this one...

Sellthekids and I are heads up and basically he's got me covered 2:1 in chips. We get it all in and I am waaaaaaay behind (Mookie said, 93% vs 7%... too tired to check) when he flips over AA vs my A6... and this madness ensues...



This leads eventually to the final hand where I complete from the SB with K7, he checks and I flop top two. I check to him, he shoves, I instacall and that's all she wrote.



Like I said, even getting to this point, I got very lucky. I only got sucked out on once when my KK lost to AQ for a very big pot. However, my chipstack was very healthy so I wasn't totally dead. I think I was down to around 20k with about 12 people remaining but I recovered. And again, I don't really tilt over bad beats so I let that roll off my back and just kept playing.

I'm not gonna go into details now since I'm exhausted but suffice to say, pretty much anyone can win a tournament when you get cards like this:

AA x 1
AK x 8
AQ x 4
KK x 5
QQ x 3
JJ x 5
TT x 1

I guess those are the premium hands. And for good measure, 99 x 2.

It was sick. I won several big hands with AK including this critical one...

5 players remaining

Seat 3: actyper (38,682)
Seat 4: RecessRampage (42,122)
Seat 5: sellthekids (40,976)
Seat 7: madbrooklyn (18,420)
Seat 8: RaisingCayne (129,800)
actyper antes 500
RecessRampage antes 500
sellthekids antes 500
madbrooklyn antes 500
RaisingCayne antes 500
actyper posts the small blind of 2,000
RecessRampage posts the big blind of 4,000
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RecessRampage [Kd Ac]
sellthekids folds
madbrooklyn folds
RaisingCayne raises to 129,300, and is all in <--- from the button
actyper has 15 seconds left to act
actyper has requested TIME
actyper calls 36,182, and is all in
RecessRampage: holy cow
RecessRampage has 15 seconds left to act
RecessRampage has requested TIME
RecessRampage: I honestly don't know what to do here
RecessRampage: you both have PP right?
RecessRampage: I gotta call
RecessRampage: gl me
RecessRampage calls 37,622, and is all in
RaisingCayne shows [7s Ts] <--- no PP
actyper shows [Ah Th] <--- no PP

as you can tell, my hand readings skills were right on... :)

RecessRampage shows [Kd Ac]
RaisingCayne: i'm a donkey!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
sellthekids: fold till the points?
Uncalled bet of 87,678 returned to RaisingCayne
*** FLOP *** [5c 2h 3h]
*** TURN *** [5c 2h 3h] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [5c 2h 3h 6s] [Jc]
RaisingCayne shows Jack Ten high
RecessRampage shows Ace King high
RecessRampage wins the side pot (6,880) with Ace King high
actyper shows Ace Jack high
RecessRampage wins the main pot (117,046) with Ace King high
actyper stands up

I guess for most people, it's an instacall? I mean the point is to win so obviously you have to call but I guess I always have to think about these things... I guess that's why I'm no good in tourneys. But at least I got it right.

Now the inordinate amount of good cards I got can only be attributed to karma. Today, I transferred some money on FTP to InstantTragedy since he recently purchased a gift for Doc Chaco in Iraq. I don't even know Doc but I support what IT was doing so I just wanted to help out. Well, maybe the poker gods saw my good deed and decided to treat me. Who knows. I got lucky and poker is so easy when you get lucky. Who ever said this game is skill based???? (sarcasm based on my post from yesterday)

I also want to thank everyone that railed me at one point or another and esp the final table. Buddy hammered on the radio was hilarious and that and all the table banter made the final table a very entertaining one. I am afraid that if I list the names, I'll forget but I'll give it a shot. Also, I'll link you all up tomorrow, not that most of you needs it since everybody probably reads your blog before they read mine. Ok, in no particular order, here goes. Again, thanks Chad, LJ, InstantTragedy, JamyHawk, Pirate Lawyer, MClarich, Schaubs, Lightning36, pushmonkey, cmitch... I'm probably forgetting someone and if so, I am very sorry. Let me know, esp if you want to be linked up. Also, thanks Mookie for pointing out how much of a dog I was in that A6 vs AA hand... errr, I mean thanks for hosting. Dammit... it's 3am. GG to all. And thank you again for the support and entertainment.