I arrived to the tourney twenty minutes late. Folded two junk hands, but saw a lot of preflop aggression in them. Which made me feel good about getting these two hands next, back to back.

------HAND 1------
Game #41818093: Texas Hold'em No Limit (25/50) - 2004/06/20 - 18:50:10 (EST)
Table "$500FREE52926 - 21" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: ciravola (1950 in chips)
Seat 2: elbrown (2980 in chips)
Seat 3: dsoul (910 in chips)
Seat 4: rural (1670 in chips)
Seat 5: liger83 (2305 in chips)
Seat 6: -Casino- (965 in chips)
Seat 7: mike1123 (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: mexico70 (2615 in chips)
Seat 9: kompot (1870 in chips)
Seat 10: WebEz sits out
-Casino-: posts small blind 25
mike1123: posts big blind 50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to mike1123
mexico70: folds
kompot: folds
WebEz: folds
WebEz sits back
ciravola: folds
elbrown: calls 50
dsoul: calls 50
rural: folds
liger83: raises to 2305 and is all-in
-Casino-: folds
mike1123: is all-in 1420 (after a long delay worthy of an Oscar - too bad no one else joined in)
elbrown: folds
dsoul: folds
Returned uncalled bets 835 to liger83
----- FLOP -----
----- TURN -----
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
liger83: shows (Two Pairs, Aces and Nines, Eight high)
mike1123: shows (Four of a kind, Aces)
mike1123 collected 3065 from Main pot



------HAND 2------
Game #41820223: Texas Hold'em No Limit (25/50) - 2004/06/20 - 18:51:14 (EST)
Table "$500FREE52926 - 21" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 1: ciravola (1950 in chips)
Seat 2: elbrown (2930 in chips)
Seat 3: dsoul (860 in chips)
Seat 4: rural (1670 in chips)
Seat 5: liger83 (835 in chips)
Seat 6: -Casino- (940 in chips)
Seat 7: mike1123 (3065 in chips)
Seat 8: mexico70 (2615 in chips)
Seat 9: kompot (1870 in chips)
Seat 10: WebEz sits out
mike1123: posts small blind 25
mexico70: posts big blind 50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to mike1123
kompot: folds
WebEz: folds
WebEz sits back
ciravola: folds
elbrown: calls 50
dsoul: raises to 860 and is all-in
rural: folds
liger83: folds
-Casino-: folds
mike1123: calls 835
mexico70: folds
elbrown: calls 810
----- FLOP -----
mike1123: bets 1000
elbrown: folds
Returned uncalled bets 1000 to mike1123
----- TURN -----
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
mike1123: shows (Three of a kind, Jacks, Ace high)
dsoul: shows [7s 7d] (Three of a kind, Sevens, Ace high)
mike1123 collected 2630 from Main pot

Very lucky river after a very unlucky flop.