About three hours into this tournament, it was looking to be short and sweet. I shoved 33 from the SB over an aggressive guy in the CO who’d been raising most of the time it was folded to him. The BB wakes up with TT and shoves over the top, and the original raiser manages to have AA. Buuuut, I spike my 3 to more than triple up and suddenly have a nice stack to ride.
Nearly three hours after that, we’re on the bubble, I open the pot with a min-raise for like the 10th time in the last two orbits, the BB 3-bets, I shove all in with my AK, and he calls it off with 88. He wins the flip, and I spend 6 hours playing to bubble and walk away with nothing. Standard FTOPS stupidness. Thank goodness it’s over.
Embarassingly for FTP, although this tournament with a $2.5 million guaranteed prizepool was the centerpiece of one of their major tournament series, Poker Stars actually managed to edge them out for biggest tournament of the day with its own special $2.5 million guarantee in the $200 Sunday tournament. The tournament, part of Stars’ 25 billionth hand promotion, drew over 13,000 runners.
You don’t give stack sizes or blinds so understanding the 88 vs. AK hand is hard but I’m guessing that 88 was correct. Agree?
Yeah, I don’t recall exactly, but his play was fine. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. Just frustrating when you’re at the top of your range and still end up flipping.