Thanks man, I'll keep an eye out for you.

Weekend playing is done, I went to visit my recovering mother yesterday and she basically just sleeps all the time right now and it was pretty pointless being there, so I fired up a 45 man and squeezed ITM in 7th place. Last night a buddy of mine wanted to see how this online poker thing works, so we played three 1 table SNGs. Took a second and third place finish. The second place one kinda irked me because once we got heads up, it was all in every hand for my opponent, he'd even call off his stack with anything. I moved all in on him with QJs and he called with 93o and took the chip lead and then went on to win. He was nowhere near desperate enough to need to make that call, he was just purely all in every hand regardless.

This morning I played the 5K guaranteed (Does Stars ever have to add any of their own money to a pool to reach the guarantee? Doubtful.). 2408 entrants, and snuck my way to $4 of profit by going out in 355th. Pretty happy with this, considering in 200 hands I never had a pair higher than tens, got AK twice with no action from anyone, never AQ, etc.

My favorite hand from the tournament came when I was suffering early and got to do this to a genius limping his aces UTG.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

MP3 (t4395)
CO (t6650)
Button (t24005)
Hero (t2020)
BB (t4635)
Villain (t5390)
UTG+1 (t8440)
MP1 (t6572)
MP2 (t2765)

Preflop: Hero is SB with , .
Villain calls t150, UTG+1 calls t150, 4 folds, Button calls t150, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t750) , , (5 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, Villain bets t750, UTG+1 folds, Button folds, Hero raises to t1870, BB folds, Villain calls t1120.

Turn: (t4490) (2 players)

River: (t4490) (2 players)

Final Pot: t4490

Results in white below:
Hero has 8d Kd (flush, king high).
Villain has Ah As (one pair, aces).
Outcome: Hero wins t4490.


Severe tilt from villain here who was still ok with chips and went all in the next three hands until getting called and his J5 went down, LOL. If I'm gonna get mad when an idiot gets my chips, I'm gonna at least enjoy it when I come out on top.