Winner!

Wow. Thanks to everyone who was watching and following along.

For those who weren’t, here’s the quick version:

With 10 left I was in 8th, which was a tough spot because Bakes was swinging his big stack extremely well. I pretty much couldn’t move. Finally picked up AK and ended up getting all in against QQ, thank god it held.

Got into some confrontations early at the final table but mostly waited for shorties to bust.

Five-handed it was me, Bakes, Psychobenny, moi_rhums, and some random satellite qualifier. I ended up getting AA vs. Bakes’ KK for a massive pot that virtually busted him and gave me a commanding chiplead.

From there I took full advantage of having Psychobenny, the next biggest stack, on my right. I kept the pressure on him and ground him down while he was still hamstrung by the presence of the shortstacks. We got 3-handed with Psycho, me, and the satellite qualifier. I ended up doubling the satty guy twice, then he got TT all in against Psycho’s AK and held to make it HU.

I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. I came into HU with 2:1 lead on a player who was literally clueless about HU. I offered him a ridiculously one-sided chop and was relieved when he declined. Went on to own him HU.

Jersey isn’t available as an avatar yet, but I’ll post a screenshot when I get it. I’ll post some hands as well when I’m not so tired/distracted.

Thanks again to everyone, and good night!

15 thoughts on “Winner!”

  7. Congratulations Andrew!

    I guess we won’t hear you complaining about tournaments for a while?

    Are you going to wear the jersey when you play or stick with your existing avatar? It might make people play differently against you, not sure if that’s a good or bad thing for you.

    Heads-up it was interesting that both of you just mini-raised each hand to get the button cheaply. If he did re-raised, you usually would fold. I’m guessing you just wanted to see as many flops against him as possible.

    • In cash games I think it’s better to wear the jersey, so maybe people will take me for a tourney donk (though most of the regs know me). In a tournament it’s better not to wear it, if I can remember to take it off.

      You’re right, I was trying to see flops cheaply against him, and in fact I was avoiding big pre-flop pots like the plague. Jacking the pot up preflop was the only prayer he had of beating me, and the only reason I ever folded to his min-raises was for fear that he would realize this.

  12. I came in at 5-handed (after the big pot), and it was a pretty nice display of how to use leverage and a big stack to force the other players to decide to play for stacks before you do.

    It was also instructive to watch how the presence of the short stacks (necessarily) affected Benny’s play. You got to pick on him quite a bit because of the smaller stacks.

    Looking at the payout schedule, though, I’m actually a bit surprised he didn’t push back a little harder, a little sooner. The big money was in first place, and it was pretty obvious to me that you were going to make him go through you to win.

    By a little sooner, I mean at about 3rd, or so. He must have thought that if he could maintain, the other player would make a mistake first.

    HU was painful to watch. I actually felt sorry for the other player. He seemed pretty lost. I have no clue why he wouldn’t take any deal that got him more than 2nd place money. Although, he was probably trying to hit the lotto, freerolling at that point.

  13. Great work and winning the AK v QQ hand was obviously key! And yes, HU was hard to watch, for as well as that guy had to play to get that deep, he was clueless on HU and the last hand illustrates that.

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