Tournament #113

OK, back in the mood after watching some WSOP on ESPN so here we go with another 45-man...

Card-dead early so I'm doing lots of folding. We're playing at an incredibly slow pace as several players are taking the max time to make EVERY SINGLE decision. Ridiculous. Finally get something worth playing, with K/K in the BB. Raise to $120 (4xBB) and get 2 callers. Flop comes with 3 spades (I have K spades) so I throw $180 in and get a caller. Nothing on the turn and river, me betting $180 each step and called each time. He's got nothing though and I take down a $1500 pot to move to $2300, 15th of 27. Back to card dead as I've gotten 9/2, 9/3, 9/3, 9/5, and some other 9/x hand. Pick up J/J on the button with everybody folding to me, raise to $500, enough to put BB all-in. No call, win $250, up to $2000. Hey, looky there - 9/2 AGAIN. All in for $1725 with A/J and the BB re-raises all-in. He turns over A/Q. 7/4/3/6 on the board and I look to be dead. But a J on the river and I double up to $3600! Back to normal with the next hand, though, as I pick up 9/4. I seriously must have had 9/x at least a dozen times already. Next hand is 9/8. Sigh... Pick up A/9 - a 9 worth playing! - and limp for $150. Flop is J/10/8 and I call $300. Turn is a 9, both of us check. River is an ace, bet is $300, I raise to $600 and get called. My 2-pair is good, $2200 pot moves me to $4600, 6th of 18. A bunch of folds for me, we lose 5 players, and we're down to 13, me at $3800. Missed bluff, down to $3200. $1600 mistake as I misread the board and bet at something I didn't have. Stupid, haven't done something like that in a long, long time. Limp for $200 from the SB with K/J, 2 others. Flop is K/Q/x, so I push all-in for my last $1000, one caller. He's got A/10. No further help for him and I more than double to $2800, 6th of 12. This one hand after folding 9/10 to two all-ins. Of course, that hand had J/9/9 on the flop. D'oh! Folded K/9 instead of going all-in, would have won the hand. A/10 next hand, all-in for $2100, uncalled, move to $2800. In the BB for $400, I've got 7/2. Flop is 7/5/5 so I take a chance and push all-in. Immediate call by big stack and he turns over A/A. Busted in 10th place. Can't complain too much on this one - could have been busted way earlier and getting 9/x literally every third hand didn't give me much of a chance.

FINISH: 10th place
PAYOUT: $0.00
PROFIT: -$0.25
BANKROLL: $66.06