SuperStack Aftermath

3rd place isnt so bad...but it probably should have been a lot better.

i had almost half of the ~900,000 chips in play when we were 6 handed but went totally and completely card dead for the next hour or so. as much as i was getting shalacked from the rail for not playing aggressively enough i found it difficult to defend with hands i should be doubling down with nevermind re-raising or defending. in retrospect, i suppose its irrelevant what my cards are, i should just re-raise anyway because i am the bigstack, but the flipside is that i could lose more that way and i think i chose to coast into the money and let the smaller guys duke it out.

it didnt quite work out the way i thought it would.

John and Alex went down in blazes of glory when a truly awesome hand developed 6-handed

Andre (new guy, friend of Ryan) and his brother Will were the other players at this point with myself and Eman. Anyway here is how it went...

Andre limps UTG, Will folds, Eman folds, JV pops it up to 4xBB or so, Alex in the SB jams, i fold.
Andre then jams and JV does the same.

up and over:

Alex: 44
Andre: AA
JV: KK

Alex tries to squeeze but runs into 2 unfoldable hands.

flop is A-4-A, your standard flopped Quads.

Andre had the same stack as JV and Alex was covered by both so now we are down to 4 and Andre finds new life after treading water for a while.

this is where i go fold, fold, fold, fold fold, fold, fold.........fold, fold, fold, fold.......rail cheeses me........fold, fold, oh AK!!! raise.....fold, fold, fold.......

then im shortstack!

blinds are monstrous now 5,000/10,000 - 3,000ante

i win with A5 vs Andre's 33 and i quickly get into 2nd place. thats how volatile the hands were, you could win or lose a hand and vault to the chiplead without seeing the turn or fall down to critical.

Eman unfortunately was the bubble boy when he had to jam his final hand in vs Will's JJ.

3 handed i was doing ok until i saw Will rekuctantly call form the SB with 35o. i should have raised but i didnt with J9

flop was 3-J-3 and i figured i had the best hand and eventually went broke. he turned a boat too!

i collected $200 for 3rd. brothers Will and Andre split the remaining $1000

all in all a great game, good structure and the usual great banter from JV.

as far as my predictions go, we had 4 late joiners so im happy i was able to get 1/3 correct. Bill was first out after playing 110% of the flops at our table.

next SuperStack in 2009! see you then