I've played a few of these recently and it's good lightweight fun. I diddled around for quite awhile, then got my first bump into 10th with 263 left when I flopped a set of Ks and was able to induce a call from a QJo on the AKx flop with an OBFV. A while later, I was able to get TP2K in against my flopped set with a similar move. I must be disguising the OBFV better lately because for a while I've been getting folds to them and calls of my all in bluffs, which is the exact opposite of what I'm going for, obviously.
Another key hand came in a blind-vs. blind battle with me having 67s in the BB. The SB completed and I checked. The flop came with two clubs and the SB checked. I bet and he called. The turn completed my flush and it went check, bet, call on the turn and again on the river. He showed down one of the most poorly played pocket rockets that I've seen in a long time.
I muddled around in the top 10 for most of the rest of the tournament. Then, heading for the FT bubble I set up a stop-and-go that worked out better than I had hoped when I flopped trip Ts with KTo. AJ had been happy to call my apparent bluff and the K on the turn sealed the deal.
From there I limped to the final table and was at death's door thanks to a steady run of hands that included mostly unpaired 2s, 3s and 4s. Then I desperation shoved with QTs and was mortified to see two calls followed by an all-in reraise from one of the leaders. One of the early callers folded and I was in against 77 and KK. The K on the flop put me on life support, but I somehow managed to go runner-runner straight to shoot me back up into first with five remaining.
More incredible crap hands followed, but I managed to stay in the top two until the deck finally hit me. With three left I picked up KK and got 88 to shove into me. that sent me into heads up with a nice chip lead and I pounded on the other player with decent hands until he got frustrated and shoved when I happened to have AK. No help for his two undercards and that's all she wrote.
I'm going to angle to play in the Mookie next week, so perhaps I will see you (singular, I assume) there!
