Ship It Baby!!

So what happened? Did GameFrog squander away his chips? Did he tighten up and get deep in the Final Table? Did he take calculated risks and won the tournament?

I can't remember.... I was too wasted from 8 bottles of Corona hehehe. But I remember taking a screenshot and was happy to see this....

$3,945!! SHIP IT BABY!!! Hehehe that felt good to say.

With 671 entries and only a 1,500 starting stack I told myself I will be willing to gamble a bit more then usual. I didnt want to cling on for hours on a short stack without a real chance at winning this.

The first big hand I had was when I held QJs in late position. There were several limpers and I bring it in for a 4X raise. Since the blinds were small everyone called and flop comes QJ9. I got 2 pair but there is a straight draw possibility. I bet the pot and got 1 caller. River was a blank and I bet the pot again... other guy raises me and I push all-in. He had AQ and a Jack came on the river to seal the deal.

I was playing another small tournament at the same time so that kept my patience in check. After awhile I held A9s and raised in late position. got a flush draw and massively overbet the pot hehehe. Guy calls and I hit the flush on the turn. Since he was committed to the pot it was easy enough to get all his chips in.

After the first break I was up around 6K. I was able to get full price on my AA and was able to outplay some opponents on the flop with risky all-in raises.

I just realized one good thing about online poker over live games... I get to scream "FOOLLLDDDD!!!!" over and over and they can't pick it up as a tell hehehe.

ITM came by with me being aroun 40K stack. Had one hand where I had the guy dominated KK vs QQ. Flop comes K83 all hearts. No worries he didnt have a heart too and my trips made sure he was drawing almost completely dead. Turn was J of hearts.... wait a minute.... River 6 of hearts. In the name of everything holy.... a SPLIT POT???? crap.

However, being a nice and polite player I say "nice hand" and he apologizes on the major suckout. It happens I guess. However, I think that lit up my good karma and went on a tear with successful blind steals and resteals. I always showed my strong steals. AK, AQ, medium PP. I showed them all while chatting with the table. I wanted people to cement my image that I am nice... but when I raise get the hell out of MY pot.

2 people didn't listen and when I had AQs I reraise a raise. The flop comes A8Q and guy goes all-in. I call in a heartbeat and he show A-8. I now have 230K in chips and was in the final table.

The second guy was from my screenshot where I held KK. Raise on my blinds and I put him all-in. His A10 doesnt draw his 3 outer.

From there it was blind steal, wait, more blind steals and a successful takeout when my pp held up on the coin flip against a short stack overcards.

I had a 4-1 chip lead when I got heads-up and pushed when I got AK. He had 99s and it was a classic coin flip for the championship.

X - X - X - K - X

Pass the sugah!!!!!