This is a day overdue. But seriously, if you saw how wiped I was the day after this, you would understand why I haven't gotten around to typing this out until today. You're about to go through some of the highs and lows of this event with me, but guaranteed, you're going to enjoy this.
In July, in the wake of my recent success in Razz, we found out not only was PokerStars adding Razz to their spread of games, but the very first event of the World Championships of Online Poker was to be a $215 Razz event. Naturally, I'm excited, but letdown. I don't have the bankroll to cover that, but seriously wanted a guaranteed shot at playing. I knew I could most likely end up spending more on satellites for the event than the buy-in itself cost. Without any real prompting, just me stating my desire to play, people on FCP started asking to buy pieces of my action. Within an hour, I already had everything bought up.
Unfortunately, starting in mid-August, I hit the big downswing. You remember the post about the video gaming, you know I was doing bad at the tables. It started looking up when I final tabled the $22 Razz event on Full Tilt, but immediately went downward after I went down 30BB in cash games.
Then I decided I would try a satellite to get myself in, so that I might have a shot of keeping my entire profit. That happened Wednesday night, 3 days before the event. I busted after the first break, experiencing nothing but coolers and a cold-deck and never getting my stack above 1700 from the starting 1500. I was pissed off, and very frustrated. I immediately told my backers not to send the money, because I wasn't playing. I had every one of them talking me out of my decision. Followed by a long talk with one of them, as well as Harley, I retracted the statement, and was back in.
I took Thursday and Friday night off of poker, but just chilled and talked with friends. Everyone of them giving me positive reinforcements for Saturday.
Friday night, I told myself that I didn't care anymore if I cashed. If the past month served correct, I wouldn't cash. I just wanted to play the best Razz I could. I wanted to make as few mistakes as humanly possible. I wanted to play patient, and not try to force things, and not try to amass a huge stack early. If I could just do all of these things, I would be happy.
I didn't sleep well Friday night. I kept tossing and turning. I did manage to get 9 hours in, but I don't know how.
I woke up Saturday morning a nervous wreck. I loaded up PokerStars to prepare, and saw that the field had jumped from 300 to over 700. My nerves immediately became more frayed. I should've closed the lobby, but I couldn't. I just kept watching the field grow as the time to start grew closer and closer. Yeah, that didn't help my nerves much.
Knowing that the temperature was going to be too hot upstairs, and downstairs would be too noisy, I packed up the laptop and moved to the basement. I knew, for the most part, I would be undisturbed down there, and I would disturb less people as well.
Registration closed at 1297 and we were on our way. My nerves were still on the edge, as they were almost the entire tournament, but it didn't phase me. I had seen over 10,000 hands of Razz this year. I knew what to do almost instinctively.
The first three levels went along pretty much uneventful. I did get a couple of bad losses, but nothing major; I was only down about 300 from my 2500 starting stack.
In the fourth level, however, came the hand of the tournament for me. My opponent had clearly defined himself as the biggest donkey at the table. He was capping bets with ten highs. Any hand that had even two cards lower than a 6, he was capping on 3rd. 99 players out of 100, and this play would be horrible. This 1 case however, it was right. Here it is:
PokerStars Game #6309920419: Tournament #40000001, $200+$15 Razz Limit - Level IV (60/120) - 2006/09/16 - 18:12:35 (ET)
Table '40000001 95' 8-max
Seat 1: vesap (2901 in chips)
Seat 2: jdchance (2258 in chips)
Seat 3: jac33142 (1461 in chips)
Seat 4: HangukMiguk (2376 in chips)
Seat 5: jester710 (2404 in chips)
Seat 6: 9_balla (3809 in chips)
Seat 7: PAMPERCHEF (1526 in chips)
Seat 8: songwebb (3265 in chips)
vesap: posts the ante 12
jdchance: posts the ante 12
jac33142: posts the ante 12
HangukMiguk: posts the ante 12
jester710: posts the ante 12
9_balla: posts the ante 12
PAMPERCHEF: posts the ante 12
songwebb: posts the ante 12
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to vesap [4s]
Dealt to jdchance [8s]
Dealt to jac33142 [Jd]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [6h 5d 3h]
Dealt to jester710 [Tc]
Dealt to 9_balla [2d]
Dealt to PAMPERCHEF [8c]
Dealt to songwebb [7h]
jac33142: brings-in low 18
HangukMiguk: raises 42 to 60
jester710: folds
9_balla: folds
PAMPERCHEF: folds
songwebb: folds
vesap: raises 60 to 120
jdchance: folds
jac33142: folds
HangukMiguk: raises 60 to 180
vesap: raises 60 to 240
Betting is capped
HangukMiguk: calls 60
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to vesap [4s] [6s]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [6h 5d 3h] [Ah]
HangukMiguk: bets 60
vesap: raises 60 to 120
HangukMiguk: raises 60 to 180
vesap: calls 60
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to vesap [4s 6s] [Jh]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [6h 5d 3h Ah] [Qd]
vesap: bets 120
HangukMiguk: raises 120 to 240
vesap: raises 120 to 360
HangukMiguk: raises 120 to 480
Betting is capped
vesap: calls 120
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to vesap [4s 6s Jh] [Qs]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [6h 5d 3h Ah Qd] [Js]
HangukMiguk: bets 120
vesap: raises 120 to 240
HangukMiguk: raises 120 to 360
vesap: raises 120 to 480
Betting is capped
HangukMiguk: calls 120
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [6h 5d 3h Ah Qd Js] [3d]
HangukMiguk: checks
vesap: bets 120
HangukMiguk: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
vesap: shows [2c Ts 4s 6s Jh Qs Kh] (Lo: J,T,6,4,2)
HangukMiguk: shows [6h 5d 3h Ah Qd Js 3d] (Lo: J,6,5,3,A)
HangukMiguk collected 3114 from pot
My push on 3rd is standard play for me. Even if it wasn't, I would be pushing this hand on 3rd against him. I catch perfect on 4th, and push again. I brick on 5th, but he is showing Jack high. I am a clear favorite to draw out on him here, so a push is natural. Once again, I brick on 6th, but I know he's still only got Jack high. I bet here knowing that 60% of the time, I'm ahead, and even if I'm not, I have a very good chance of drawing out. I'm shocked he continued to push this hand on 6th, but like I said, he wasn't the brightest bulb there.
EDIT--10/12/2006: I just finally bit the bullet and ran some calculations on the hand above just to see if my on the spot odds were close. I had my opponent on a range of hands where I could expect him to cap bets with three cards to a ten, as long as two of them where lower than five. So, here's the odds from each street, with his exact hand, seeing as I could put him on something like this:
3rd street: I'm a 59% favorite.
4th street: I'm a 68% favorite.
5th street: I'm a 64% favorite, even though I don't currently hold the best hand.
6th street: I'm a 71% favorite. I was off on my calculations there, I was an even bigger favorite in the hand than I thought, but like I had said, I knew even if he improved, or if I was wrong, I had a good chance at a redraw here. Even at 60% against him, I push here. But 70+% in Razz makes the push 50 times more correct.
7th street: I'm a lock (duh). Had I have improved to an 8 or 7, given the range of hands I put the vesap on, I would even cap here.
I almost threw up when I bricked the river. But I'm priced in on 7th (I'm getting 25:1 odds on my call, this is a no-brainer call, there's no hands here that I can fold this to), and there's a very good chance against him that my hand wins. When I saw that I was, in fact, the winner, I almost jumped through the ceiling.
I got moved to another table. Nothing really interesting happened here, just my chip stack bouncing up and down a bit. There was a massive thread on FCP'ers progress on FCP.
I read through this yesterday, and discovered that I was seated at a table with Annie Duke. I
had no clue, and honestly, it wouldn't have mattered much.
I wound up getting moved again, eventually landing at a table that absolutely shocked me. I got seated to the immediate right of 1983 World Champion Tom McEvoy. You dream about playing the names you see in the books and on TV, but when it happens, it catches you off guard. What really was shocking was when this happened just about six hands after I joined the table:
PokerStars Game #6311456791: Tournament #40000001, $200+$15 Razz Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2006/09/16 - 20:33:02 (ET)
Table '40000001 141' 8-max
Seat 1: pios31 (6841 in chips)
Seat 2: Jack3-9-95 (5233 in chips)
Seat 3: zblazer (17512 in chips)
Seat 4: gator93 (3056 in chips)
Seat 5: LucasMarcano (5046 in chips)
Seat 6: ElMastermind (1395 in chips)
Seat 7: HangukMiguk (3109 in chips)
Seat 8: Tom McEvoy (1512 in chips)
pios31: posts the ante 40
Jack3-9-95: posts the ante 40
zblazer: posts the ante 40
gator93: posts the ante 40
LucasMarcano: posts the ante 40
ElMastermind: posts the ante 40
HangukMiguk: posts the ante 40
Tom McEvoy: posts the ante 40
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to pios31 [9d]
Dealt to Jack3-9-95 [9s]
Dealt to zblazer [2d]
Dealt to gator93 [Qd]
Dealt to LucasMarcano [9c]
Dealt to ElMastermind [9h]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [2s 5c 8c]
Dealt to Tom McEvoy [5s]
gator93: brings-in low 60
LucasMarcano: folds
ElMastermind: folds
HangukMiguk: raises 140 to 200
Tom McEvoy: raises 200 to 400
pios31: folds
Jack3-9-95: folds
zblazer: folds
gator93: folds
HangukMiguk: calls 200
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [2s 5c 8c] [3h]
Dealt to Tom McEvoy [5s] [As]
Tom McEvoy: bets 200
HangukMiguk: raises 200 to 400
Tom McEvoy: raises 200 to 600
HangukMiguk: raises 200 to 800
Betting is capped
Tom McEvoy: calls 200
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [2s 5c 8c 3h] [6s]
Dealt to Tom McEvoy [5s As] [Qc]
HangukMiguk: bets 400
Tom McEvoy: calls 272 and is all-in
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [2s 5c 8c 3h 6s] [Kc]
Dealt to Tom McEvoy [5s As Qc] [3c]
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [2s 5c 8c 3h 6s Kc] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HangukMiguk: shows [2s 5c 8c 3h 6s Kc 2h] (Lo: 8,6,5,3,2)
Tom McEvoy: shows [4d 3s 5s As Qc 3c Ac] (Lo: Q,5,4,3,A)
zblazer said, "brick"
HangukMiguk collected 3324 from pot
That's right, I busted him. That was a confidence booster. I got slightly lucky here, but not so much. He was short on chips, so he was prone to make a move here no matter what. I put him on that range of a hand, but can't fold 3rd with only one visible out gone (two or three if I'm right about McEvoy's hand). I caught great on 4th, and was drawing to two visible outs gone. I capped it, which is probably a mistake, but it didn't feel wrong at the time. I knew he was going to get all the money in somewhere down the line, and I would end up being committed to the pot regardless.
Once again, I catch good on fifth, and we get it in. My read was in fact correct, but this hand isn't over yet. I now have to fade a 2, 8, 7, or 6 to win. McEvoy was drawing to 15 outs at the time, about 2.5-1 to win this hand. Luckily, brick brick for my win and a huge confidence booster. Not a lot of people can say they busted a World Champion, and I can.
A little later, zblazer at this table proved himself to be a Razz donkey. I know this because he showed little respect for completions, calling them with King highs, calling down with the worst of it, then miraculously making his hand on the river. I wound up nicknaming him Ricky Zilem, naturally.
Call it karmic, call it donkey play, whatever, but as he had once sucked out on me, I did the same on him in the following hand:
PokerStars Game #6312001451: Tournament #40000001, $200+$15 Razz Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2006/09/16 - 21:21:03 (ET)
Table '40000001 141' 8-max
Seat 1: pios31 (2752 in chips)
Seat 2: Jack3-9-95 (5703 in chips)
Seat 3: zblazer (25438 in chips)
Seat 4: TheRoll (4731 in chips)
Seat 5: LucasMarcano (8576 in chips)
Seat 6: ElMastermind (3124 in chips)
Seat 7: HangukMiguk (2521 in chips)
Seat 8: Bakane (5499 in chips)
pios31: posts the ante 60
Jack3-9-95: posts the ante 60
zblazer: posts the ante 60
TheRoll: posts the ante 60
LucasMarcano: posts the ante 60
ElMastermind: posts the ante 60
HangukMiguk: posts the ante 60
Bakane: posts the ante 60
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to pios31 [3c]
Dealt to Jack3-9-95 [2s]
Dealt to zblazer [2h]
Dealt to TheRoll [2c]
Dealt to LucasMarcano [4d]
Dealt to ElMastermind [7h]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7c Ac 2d]
Dealt to Bakane [Ks]
Bakane: brings-in low 90
pios31: folds
Jack3-9-95: raises 210 to 300
zblazer: calls 300
TheRoll: folds
LucasMarcano: calls 300
ElMastermind: folds
HangukMiguk: raises 300 to 600
Bakane: folds
Jack3-9-95: calls 300
zblazer: calls 300
LucasMarcano: calls 300
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to Jack3-9-95 [2s] [8s]
Dealt to zblazer [2h] [9c]
Dealt to LucasMarcano [4d] [3d]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7c Ac 2d] [Ah]
HangukMiguk: bets 300
Jack3-9-95: calls 300
zblazer: calls 300
LucasMarcano: calls 300
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to Jack3-9-95 [2s 8s] [9d]
Dealt to zblazer [2h 9c] [5h]
Dealt to LucasMarcano [4d 3d] [Tc]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7c Ac 2d Ah] [7d]
HangukMiguk: bets 600
Jack3-9-95: folds
zblazer: raises 600 to 1200
LucasMarcano said, "????????"
LucasMarcano: folds
HangukMiguk said, "time to get lucky against zilem"
HangukMiguk: raises 361 to 1561 and is all-in
zblazer: calls 361
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to zblazer [2h 9c 5h] [Kc]
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7c Ac 2d Ah 7d] [Qc]
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7c Ac 2d Ah 7d Qc] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
zblazer: shows [5c 6c 2h 9c 5h Kc Kd] (Lo: K,9,6,5,2)
HangukMiguk: shows [7c Ac 2d Ah 7d Qc Ts] (Lo: Q,T,7,2,A)
HangukMiguk collected 7292 from pot
When both those Kings peeled off for him, I was running around the basement screaming. I was back in business thanks to a very lucky draw against a donkey.
Things kept going and going, and the bubble kept drawing closer. Two FCP'ers left (me and scottyno, the two big razz heads on FCP), and one other member from AJPoker, BobbyDigg, who also plays Razz exceptionally well. Come to find out, there were 30+ members in the AJPoker chat room watching me and Bobby play (a first for AJ). I kept accumulating chips, and started seeing a TON of railers coming my way.
Unfortunately for scottyno, he got a cold deck and some really bad luck. He squeezed through to the bubble, and busted on an unlucky hand shortly after, leaving me and BobbyDigg left.
After the bubble burst, it was just a blur. My heart was racing, as well as my mind, as I kept playing my A game. Like most of my tournament, my stack fluctuated a lot, incurring a lot of bad beats, and a lot of big hands where I made some monsters. At no point in this tournament, did I steam. I never tilted, my focus was so high that I didn't even have to tell myself to calm down after a losing hand. I was already calm.
The night I won the $11 tournament on Full Tilt, I told Harley something in response to how fast I was processing the information and reacting to it. I simply said, "I am a machine." Saturday, that's what it felt like. My only job was to play my hands exactly how I know to play them, react to the changing situations, and react quickly. I never once used my timebank. I didn't need it. I reacted instinctively, and almost immediately to every action made in the game. It wasn't that I was rushing myself either. I had already though through the situations before they arose, and then did exactly what I thought was the right option in the given situation.
Before I knew it, we were down to 30 players. I was fighting back the tears of joy, remember that I still had a job to do. By this time, the nerves wore off, and shortly after, BobbyDigg busted, leaving me the only one left representing both AJPoker and FCP. After Bobby busted, I truly felt that I was the best player left in the field. If I didn't screw up, and I didn't get horrendously unlucky, I would make the final table. If I made the final table, I knew I would win. There wasn't even a question in my mind about that.
Unfortunately, I did get unlucky with 13 players left in the tournament. These following two hands were back to back:
PokerStars Game #6315549517: Tournament #40000001, $200+$15 Razz Limit - Level XIX (10000/20000) - 2006/09/17 - 02:58:18 (ET)
Table '40000001 42' 8-max
Seat 1: HangukMiguk (153192 in chips)
Seat 2: FellKnight (273728 in chips)
Seat 3: BadgerDawg (214776 in chips)
Seat 4: debrisfish (215564 in chips)
Seat 5: 2badd4u (348993 in chips)
Seat 7: TS Long (321433 in chips)
HangukMiguk: posts the ante 2000
FellKnight: posts the ante 2000
BadgerDawg: posts the ante 2000
debrisfish: posts the ante 2000
2badd4u: posts the ante 2000
TS Long: posts the ante 2000
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7h 5s 4d]
Dealt to FellKnight [9c]
Dealt to BadgerDawg [Qs]
Dealt to debrisfish [Ac]
Dealt to 2badd4u [2c]
Dealt to TS Long [4c]
BadgerDawg: brings-in low 3000
debrisfish: folds
2badd4u: raises 7000 to 10000
TS Long: folds
HangukMiguk: calls 10000
FellKnight: folds
BadgerDawg: folds
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7h 5s 4d] [8d]
Dealt to 2badd4u [2c] [9s]
HangukMiguk: bets 10000
2badd4u: calls 10000
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7h 5s 4d 8d] [Kh]
Dealt to 2badd4u [2c 9s] [5c]
2badd4u: bets 20000
HangukMiguk: raises 20000 to 40000
2badd4u: raises 20000 to 60000
HangukMiguk: raises 20000 to 80000
Betting is capped
2badd4u: calls 20000
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7h 5s 4d 8d Kh] [7d]
Dealt to 2badd4u [2c 9s 5c] [2h]
HangukMiguk: bets 20000
2badd4u: calls 20000
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [7h 5s 4d 8d Kh 7d] [Qd]
HangukMiguk: checks
2badd4u: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HangukMiguk: shows [7h 5s 4d 8d Kh 7d Qd] (Lo: Q,8,7,5,4)
2badd4u: shows [3s 8c 2c 9s 5c 2h 6d] (Lo: 8,6,5,3,2)
2badd4u collected 255000 from pot
I was right to push on 5th street. I was not drawing bad, and I was drawing better than a nine-high. I am a slight favorite there. When he paired up on 6th, and I hit what couldn't have looked like a brick to him, I was hoping he'd fold. I would've bet if I had hit on 7th, only to still lose the hand. Even still, if I bet on the bluff, I'm almost certain he calls with nine-high. I was going to have to double up several times no matter what after this. I'd rather save a bet, and make sure if I do double up, I get more chips.
EDIT 10/22/2006: I got a ton of feedback and flack from people about how I played this hand. So I've decided to give a breakdown starting from every street:
3rd Street: I'm up against the lowest card on the board (now that the ace in front of him folded), who completes. The four folds, and here I am with 754. This is not a powerful seven, but it's not a terrible hand, and in a situation like this, I'm more than happy to see what develops. Naturally, his complete after the low door folds could be more of an auto-completion than anything, but I won't find that out unless I raise. However, this hand is vulnerable enough as it is, and I don't want to price myself into a hairy situation on later streets, so I opt to call. Throwing this away is a BIG mistake FYI, with only two outs folded up, this is one of the best situations you can find for this hand. (Position on 3rd: 56% favorite)
4th Street: This is about as bittersweet a street as it can be. I hit an out, however it is an eight. I'd prefer to see an ace or a deuce, or even a three, to make my decision easier, and the former two kills some of the dead outs I had. However, the key thing that makes this street good is that the villain hits a 9. I now know I'm improving to be a clear favorite in the hand, no matter what his down cards are. This is an obvious bet here. If he folds, he was on an auto-complete on 3rd. If he calls, this hand has a potential for an explosion. And he calls, so get your helmets on. (Position on 4th: 62% favorite)
5th Street: Here's the street I got the most flack on. I brick out with a King, and he improves to what appears to be (and probably is) a made nine. At this point, I am only seeing 2 outs gone that effect my hand, and the 5 didn't hurt my hand either. I push this pot and see what happens. By doing this, I A) build up a pot for when I do hit my hand, and B) give myself odds to see 7th if I don't improve, but he doesn't improve to where I'm drawing dead. And like I did mention before, USUALLY a draw to a hand better than a nine is better than a made nine. I say USUALLY, because after doing
calculations on this hand, I was actually a 2:1 underdog. oops. make that mistake #6 for me.
Scottyno actually told me I could've saved a couple bets on 5th street here. After seeing the up cards and running calculations on the hand, I agree. On the fly, that's not an easy decision. Without knowing what the actual downcards are, I can only go by the outs that I see missing from the board.
Plus, you have to factor in that players will play their boards more often than not, so he could
just as easily have paired up somewhere and only be representing the hand on his board. I am also in a position where I have to make a decision: do I want to play to move up the payscale, or do I want to win? Just cashing, for me, was a good result here, and I did not want to tighten up strictly to move up the payscale. Given all the factors above, plus my desire to win, I needed to accumulate chips. Winning this hand, and extracting maximum value (doubling up) would give me around 311,000 in chips (around 15.5BB), whereas tightening up leaves me with around 5BB. I'm going to have to make a move, and this felt like the time. If I just call here, I am in a worse position to extract maximum value here. Say I call here, call 6th, hit the river, and he misses. He may continue to fire out on the river, and if I raise, he'll most likely opt to flat call. Or, he may cease betting, and opt to check/call any bet I make on the river. Both scenarios do not give me maximum value on the hand.
Now, if I cap here, miss, call 6th, and hit 7th, and he misses, he's committed to calling off the rest of my stack on 7th even if he thinks he's beat.
Also, you have to factor in that if I hit either street, that makes his odds of hitting a hand to beat me decrease. Not only does it change it, it changes the percentages DRAMATICALLY. Thus, say, I hit the Ah on 6th this time, and he hits the same card on 6th, I am now a 77% favorite to win the hand. He is also now priced in to try to hit a better 8 than me, with me still drawing live to a 7 high on 7th.
6th Street: Instead, I hit the 7d, and he also pairs. Like I said above, he bricks, and I "hit." As far as he knows, I made an 874 low. He may decide here, after I portrayed a strong draw to lower than a 98 on 5th street, that he doesn't want to continue this hand, but considering my stack, I wouldn't fault his call either; he's pretty much committed himself to this hand. (Percentages: I'm 23% to win)
7th Street: Alas, I brick. There's nothing I can do to win this pot, as he's priced in with a made nine (which I'm certain he has...at least), and if he makes a made eight or lower, and I bet, he raises me for my last few chips. I can't even call a bet from him if he makes it here. I check, and much to my shock, he checks behind me after improving to an eight, knowing I hold at best now an 87 low. That check means nothing more than that. If I bet, I'm committed to calling off my remaining chips anyway, so why check/raise? If I even made a nine, I would surmise that I would go ahead and bet it in, because I'd almost have to call there just from the price I'm getting on it. This was strictly a check to save chips from missing my hand. If he bets, he doesn't have to showdown his hand, which means none of his opponents could get any more information on how he plays from him. But either way, I'm shutdown on this hand. Check or check/fold are my only options, and hope that I have some chances to mount a comeback.
But the next hand says it all:
PokerStars Game #6315555180: Tournament #40000001, $200+$15 Razz Limit - Level XIX (10000/20000) - 2006/09/17 - 02:59:16 (ET)
Table '40000001 42' 8-max
Seat 1: HangukMiguk (31192 in chips)
Seat 2: FellKnight (271728 in chips)
Seat 3: BadgerDawg (209776 in chips)
Seat 4: debrisfish (213564 in chips)
Seat 5: 2badd4u (481993 in chips)
Seat 7: TS Long (319433 in chips)
HangukMiguk: posts the ante 2000
FellKnight: posts the ante 2000
BadgerDawg: posts the ante 2000
debrisfish: posts the ante 2000
2badd4u: posts the ante 2000
TS Long: posts the ante 2000
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [8s 4c 6h]
Dealt to FellKnight [8d]
Dealt to BadgerDawg [Jh]
Dealt to debrisfish [Qd]
Dealt to 2badd4u [Kd]
Dealt to TS Long [7d]
2badd4u: brings-in low 3000
TS Long: folds
HangukMiguk: raises 7000 to 10000
FellKnight: raises 10000 to 20000
BadgerDawg: folds
debrisfish: folds
2badd4u: folds
HangukMiguk: raises 9192 to 29192 and is all-in
FellKnight: calls 9192
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [8s 4c 6h] [8h]
Dealt to FellKnight [8d] [Kh]
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [8s 4c 6h 8h] [8c]
Dealt to FellKnight [8d Kh] [Qs]
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [8s 4c 6h 8h 8c] [7c]
Dealt to FellKnight [8d Kh Qs] [Js]
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to HangukMiguk [8s 4c 6h 8h 8c 7c] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HangukMiguk: shows [8s 4c 6h 8h 8c 7c 7s] (Lo: 7,7,8,6,4)
FellKnight: shows [9d 6d 8d Kh Qs Js 4s] (Lo: J,9,8,6,4)
HangukMiguk said, "gg"
FellKnight collected 73384 from pot
FellKnight said, "gg"
If I didn't pair up, hit a King or a Queen on the river, I double up. Unfortuantely, I did hit a boat, and was out. And it was over, just like that. I wasn't upset, I didn't get angry. I was just in shock. In a field of almost 1300 players, I finished 13th. The top 1% of the field. The total cash was $2075.20. After paying my backers, I walked away with just $0.14 shy of $1100.
After vowing I wouldn't play, I went on to conquer this field, and absolutely leave my peers on FCP an AJPoker in awe. I left myself in awe. I just stood there seeing my name on the leaderboard, just in shock at what I had just accomplished, because six people on FCP had faith in me enough to stake me in this tournament, and felt like I deserved my chance to play it. I had busted a world champion, and made enough to move up a level in Razz. I got to live a dream. It wasn't the one where I walk away with the bracelet and the $58,000. But it was exactly what I said I would be happy with Friday night. And I was true to my word. I made maybe 5 mistakes in the tournament. Out of over 700 hands dealt to me, I am proud of that.
My birthday is on Tuesday. What a birthday present I was able to give myself. This is an experience I will never forget. Ever.
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