I had posted this at another site, but felt it was appropriate for here as well.
BTF!
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As many of us are aware we have a significant number of members who belong to multiple poker forums. I want to thank all of you for your support on Sunday.
My poker evolution has benefited from the words of wisdom and encouragement that sites like this provide.
The key to this tourney for me was Patience, Position, the unrequited love shown to me by Jacks and one bit of extreme luck.
The runner runner str8 with AQ up against AA, late in the day, was my second suk out of the tourney, there was one earlier with KJ against KQ, that seemed just as monumental at the time. I still have to work on reducing those situations when I am out chipped and work on the discipline of getting to see the texture of the flop before risking my tournament life.
The final hand is where my lack of patience failed me. We were down to 10 players, the FT Bubble. The first 3 chipleaders were at 2.7MM, 2.5MM and 1.7MM, then 5 of us were bunched together from 10-6th with an average of 500K.
We are playing 2-5 handed tables. Blinds are 20-40K. It is folded around to me on the button and I have A-10 off. I feel this is good five handed and bump it to $120K. The sb folds and the bb, who has me outchipped, goes all in.
My first reaction, which I went with was that he thought it was a steal and was coming over the top on a resteal with a weaker Ace. He turned over pocket 8's and I lost the coin flip.
I tell myself I was playing for the tourney, not the final table, and the play was ok. I'm probably deluding myself and should have stayed patient and wait for something better than a coin flip to go out on, expecially as the payouts would be escalating and I would have that pretty Red Badge (vanity comes to the surface).
The lesson..there is still much to learn and the support is phenominal. I did not show a hand that was not a showdown, but so wanted to show the 2-7 blind steal towards the end :)
Thanks again for the support. I hope all members get the opportunity to be railed by the forum community.
