My proudest day ever as a poker player.(so far)
I won a huge tournament.
Here are my abilities in order from best to worst.
NLHE sitNgo
Limit hold em cash games
SitnGo for hi low games and Omaha hi
hi low and Omaha hi cash games
MTT NLHENL cash
I am just terrible at these things, I play so fast from sitnGo and cash games that I forget what it is for a big tourney, and they're boring as hell too.Well, not tonight.Party has a party for free 50k tournament freeroll. Normally I would have just bought in for 10k FPP but I blew them all. So I play a qualifier, 1/30 get paid, 466 signed up.Well, I did it, I placed in the money, and not once did I REALLY have over 10k and I watched several 30 and 40k stacks crumble. Insane. I only gave out TWO bad beats, and only one other monster pot.First bad beat was me with a big stack(I got my 10k real early on) and I limped with 1 other limper in I was in the button, SB goes all in for a marginal amount eveyone folds I call, he has AQ I hit a flush.Second was the most critical. We are down to 20 now, and 15 get paid. I still have my 9k or so and UTG doubles the blind to 3,000, I have pocket nines in LP and decide to go all in, what does he turn over? QQ - F#*@! Well, I caught a nine on the river and felt really bad, but I realized it didn't matter, we both had PLENTY to sit on our hands, and sure enough we both placed, so in retrospect the bad beat hurt nobody and just helped me out.So I win a seat in a gigantic tournament that will probably have 5,000 players, all fish, and I probably won't win squat, but that isn't the point. I did better than 98.2% of Partypoker tonight. And only TWO bad beats!
