First tourney in over a month...

Tonight for some reason I decided to take a break from homework and play in a tourney. I cannot remember the last tourney I played in. It has been at least a month though. Anyway, I played in the $69+6 $16,000 guaranteed on full tilt tonight and I played really well. I doubled up really early with AQ against JJ after a flop of QXX. Then I was got down again and really just grinded the shortstack all the way to the money. The best hand I saw all tourney was QQ and I stole with it. I just picked my spots and won a bunch of small pots when we hit the money. I then became an average stack somehow and I found myself at a table with the three biggest stacks of the tourney, and they were all on my left. That was mega-lame. I finally was moved to a new table and I started being aggressive. I was open raising a lot of hands before I finally decided to change it up a little and limp on the button with K10d. Anyway, here is my busto hand. I am really disappointed because I would have been 3rd in chips after this pot if it would have been shipped my way. In retrospect, I should've just raised and taken the blinds.


Full Tilt Poker Game #1213137428: $16,000 Guarantee (8194544), Table 22 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:48:38 ET - 2006/11/08
Seat 1: Karls_Hungus (6,105)
Seat 2: cowboylou (27,607)
Seat 3: stan2005 (21,234)
Seat 5: dmkai3 (17,902)
Seat 6: chadmat (13,367)
Seat 7: CU_bball (19,794)
Seat 8: popinstl (11,992)
Seat 9: Mardani (34,533)
Karls_Hungus antes 125
cowboylou antes 125
stan2005 antes 125
dmkai3 antes 125
chadmat antes 125
CU_bball antes 125
popinstl antes 125
Mardani antes 125
popinstl posts the small blind of 500
Mardani posts the big blind of 1,000
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to CU_bball [Kd Td]
Karls_Hungus folds
cowboylou folds
stan2005 folds
dmkai3 folds
chadmat folds
CU_bball calls 1,000
popinstl folds
Mardani checks
*** FLOP *** [Ks 6h 7s]
Mardani bets 3,000
CU_bball raises to 7,000
Mardani calls 4,000
*** TURN *** [Ks 6h 7s] [3d]
Mardani checks
CU_bball bets 11,669, and is all in
Mardani calls 11,669
CU_bball shows [Kd Td]
Mardani shows [9s 5s]
*** RIVER *** [Ks 6h 7s 3d] [8c]
CU_bball shows a pair of Kings
Mardani shows a straight, Nine high
Mardani wins the pot (40,838) with a straight, Nine high
CU_bball stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 40,838 Rake 0
Board: [Ks 6h 7s 3d 8c]
Seat 1: Karls_Hungus folded before the Flop
Seat 2: cowboylou folded before the Flop
Seat 3: stan2005 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: dmkai3 folded before the Flop
Seat 6: chadmat folded before the Flop
Seat 7: CU_bball (button) showed [Kd Td] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 8: popinstl (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: Mardani (big blind) showed [9s 5s] and won (40,838) with a straight, Nine high

I thought for sure he was just on a flush draw until he called over 11K on the turn. Too bad for me that he was on a gutterball draw as well.

I took 23rd out of 356 entrants for a grand profit of $60. Ship Ship! It was nice to play in a tourney for a change and maybe, time permitting, I can fit a few more in here and there.