Tournament #2: KO on a coin flip!

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Well, as promised, here is the story of another fun tournament!

5,000 starting stacks. My table is a mixture of solid players and borderline morons.
Starting blinds were 25/50, now the blinds are 150/300. After an uneventful tournament consisting of occasionally stealing blinds, sometimes giving up on the flop and sometimes winning with a flop bet, my stack hasn't varied much and is still at 4,500 chips.

It's 8-handed, I get AQ offsuit under the gun. The standard preflop raise has been around 700-1000. I make it 800 to go, leaving 3,700 behind. It folds to some spewy guy in middle position and he raises all-in for 5k more! He slams down the chips with force and says some stuff. Translating into normal human speech, he says that he has a mid-pair and doesn't want a call. Everyonoe else folds. It's only 3,700 for me to call so I figure let's gamble baby!! I call and the pot's now 9,450.

He shows TT.

Flop is J92
Turn J
River 4

Well, sometimes you gotta get lucky to win a tournament. And today was not that day!



Comments

gj brian. u'r very consistent.

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