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Originally Posted by xxrod17xx
Gl in the tourney everyone, post your results here.
Well... it was a big day for me. I made the final table and chopped for $7,800.
It seemed like I was in cruise control all day. My chip count never dipped below 9,500. By the first break, I was at around 15,000. By the second, I was around 30,000. By dinner time, I was over 100,000. And when the final table started, I had about 450,000.
More than anything, it was a day of no bad beats. I always seemed to get my chips in good, and my hands held up. I won all the two or three races that I faced, including a key hand just before the final table when I pushed with 125,000 chips w/ AJ, got called by the small bind with TT, and made my hand on the river.
The final table was interesting. There were two big stacks with around 1MM, a stack with around 800,000, and then the rest of us. It was clear immediately that the tournament was going to end with a chop, and so the final table played more like a super-satellite end-game than a MTT end-game.
There were two very small stacks at the final table, and the chip leader made it clear that he was not chopping until they were gone. Once they busted, there was still one small stack with around 80,000 chips. By now, the blinds were 50,000/25,000 w/ 10,000 ante. So, now the deal was to see whether this guy would make it through the blinds.
Here is where my biggest decision of the day came in. I was in the BB with around 290,000 chips. The UTG player was an aggressive player with about 450,000 chips, and he opened for a raise to 150,000. It folded to the short stack, and he shoved. Now it folded back to me, and I looked down at AQo. I was very uncertain what to do. I knew I couldn't just call with half my stack. Could I really fold this? I thought really long, and finally I shoved, content to take the sixth-place money of around $3,900 if that is what happened.
Incredibly, the UTG raiser folded! When we turned up the hands, the short stack showed AK, and I was dominated. The UTG claimed that he had 44, which would have held up and busted both of us.
After that hand, we agreed upon a chop. The top three took $12,000. The rest of us took $8,500. Then we kicked $500/per player to the chip leader for taxes, and $200 per player to the number 2 guy for his taxes. Then we all cashed out.
All in all, a very good day.