Tournament #50

Tough to end the night on such a stupid play, so here we go for another shot! Not a whole lot of detail on this one, lots of small wins keeping me around. Built up to $4500 then back down to $2400. With blinds at $100/200, raised to $600 ($2400 total left) with KK. Shorter stacked re-raised all-in and I called. He turned over A/K. Flop came 8/7/5. Turn 6. River 4. Split pot. Awesome. Could have doubled up. Still made $800 off the other pre-raise callers. $3200, 9th out of 12. Folded A/5 to a small raise. Not real sure why. Flop would have given me middle pair and flush draw. Turn would have made the flush - with an all-in bettor. Could have busted someone and made a nice pot but didn't because I weakly folded. Bad play. In BB with $200/$400 blinds, I pick up K/J. Unraised pot, one caller. Flop is J/8/8. Other bets $800, I raise all-in. He folds. Up to $3600, still 9th of 12. 2 guys gone, we're down to 10, me still in 9th. A bad beat has me doubled up to $5500 when I flop a 10 to go with my all-in A/10 against A/K. Nice to have one go in my favor. Short stack finally busted and we've got a final table. I've got $4400 but blinds are $300/600. Immediately all-in with A/K , no callers, I pick up a $2500 pot, now up to $6200. Picked up a $1900 pot with K/2 when nothing hit the flop, turn or river and me & one caller checked all the way to the end. $7100. Money distribution is real even. One guy under $2000. Everybody else from $5000-$11000. We finally lose a guy, so we're down to 8 and the short stack is still here with $1600. We finally lost a guy and we're into the money. Former $1600 short stack is now #1 with $16,000. And me the short stack with blinds at $600/1200. Double up with K/6 when a 6 hits the flop. One caller and his straight draw goes nowhere. $9300. Another play gone, down to 6. Another guy gone, we're down to 5. Steal a couple blinds and I'm up to $12000. Getting late so I called an all-in with K/Q. Four spades on the board gives him an ace-high flush to my king-high and I'm down to $5900. I make a ridiculous all-in raise with 3/9 and promptly double up when the flop is 3/J/9. Now at $10700. Blinds are now $800/$1600, basically everyone except chip leader is short stacked. One more gone, down to four. Double up with K/9 in the BB to put me at $16000. One more gone, down to three. Double up with A/J has me to $29000 and chip lead. Short stack gone, we're heads up! I want it over fast so I push all-in with K/3, called by A/K. Board goes nowhere, I'm busted in 2nd place. Very happy with result, no doubt I could have won had I wanted to play longer. 2 excellent places in my last 3 tourneys and I'm suddenly to a high mark for my bankroll after being in the depths of despair for awhile. The difference? The last three tourneys have been much more "standard" in terms of play. Less craziness and guys calling with 9/3 all over the place.

FINISH: 2nd place
PAYOUT: $2.41
PROFIT: $2.16
BANKROLL: $61.40