Tournament #105

Gonna give it another shot tonight. Why not?

Slow start but pick up A/3 suited in the SB right before the break. Flop comes Q/Q/J with 2 hearts, giving me 4 to a flush. Guy to my left bets $60 and I call (with another guy). Turn is nothing, he bets $80, I call again. River is a 5h, giving me my flush. I check and he throws in $960, second guy folds, I raise all-in, he calls. He's got K/Q for a set of queens. I double to $2960. Limped with K/10 along with 4 others. Flop was J/J/7. I tossed in another $60, one caller. Turn was a K, another $120, called. River was a Q. Threw in another $180, called. Dunno what he had, but my Ks were good. Up to $3300, 9th of 30. Took down a nice pot with A/J - nothing hit the board, tossed $400 at the river and got called. Other guy had Q/9, even less than me. Up to $3900. Gave $500 of it back on a busted straight draw. Won a small pot to get back to $3600, 6th of 23. Take the blinds in a walk and a small pot from the SB and I'm up to $3700. A/K suited, I raise to $450, get one caller. 2 hearts on the flop give me a nice flush draw. Other guy bets $450, I call. Turn gets me the flush, both of us check. River, I bet $750 and he calls. $3600 to me. Up to $5600, 6th of 18. Uncalled raise with A/K pushes me to $6000. A couple of blinds and a (thankfully, I'd have lost a ton of money) flush and I'm down to $4400. Still 8th of 14. Get a big chunk back when I pick up A/A and the guy in front of me raises to $500. I re-raise to $1000 and everybody folds. Was hoping he'd raise again so I could go all-in. A/K on the next hand and I'm back to $5700. Hanging around at about $5800, 4th of 11 now. Blinds jumped to $200/400, this should get us to the final table quickly. K/9 with a K on the flop moves me to $6100. A/7 with a 7 on the flop bumps me to $7200, 3rd of 10. Quickly blinded down to $5200 - man that was quick. Missed straight draw and I'm down to $4000 but make the final table. That was painful. Immediately pick up A/J suited and get raised and re-raise all-in. Other guy has A/Q :( I get a straight draw on the flop and another out on the turn but they go nowhere. Stupidly busted in 9th place. At least it wasn't a bad beat for once but I still let a really, really short stack cash ahead of me.

FINISH: 9th place
PAYOUT: $0.00
PROFIT: -$0.25
BANKROLL: $67.30