Palm Springs Tourny Part 2

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jan 11, 2008 in General | 0 comments

I played in the Morongo Friday Morning tournament for $48, you get 6k in chips at 15 minute blinds starting at 25-50. Fun tournament, saw QQ on the BB for the first hand and took it down for about 2k. Played against more super-aggressive people and played my K9 beautifully when I hit trips on the turn (I had top pair at the flop) and doubled through some dolt in seat 10.

Made some plays and worked my way up to 22,000 in chips, then saw the coldest deck of all time. I really REALLY wanted to play some hands, but it quickly got to the point where someone was all-in preflop for 5 to 8k and I don't even have a marginal hand to call at all. So the blinds finally catch up to me, and we're down to the last 15 (top 10 make the money).

So I hit some cards - AK off with 13k and the blinds at 2/4k, and of course, I push all in. I get a call from another woeful shortstack of 10k, and she flips over AA. Damn. I get killed, I just go all in next hand with Q7 clubs, get 1 caller (BB) who turns over J7. OMG - am I going to live? Nope. He hits JJ10 on the flop and I am toast, 5 out of the money.

Oh well, I had fun, played for 2+ hours, and damn near made the money in back to back events.