Another Tourney Day

It's been a wild day on the tournament tables. I'll give you a rundown...

1) $20+2 NLH on Party. Here I never got much going. I ended up getting my last 15BBs in with AdTd vs. JhTh on a QsTc4s board and losing to a river J.

2) $5+R, $15K Gtd. NLH on Party. I had a pretty good stack of about 60K (average was 35K) when the following hand comes along.

NL Texas Hold'em Level:8 Blinds-Antes(400/800-25)
Table $15K Gtd Rebuy(678489) Table #9 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: Hero ( $60739 )
Seat 6: Emit360 ( $28281 )
Seat 8: DoctorFuttok ( $21965 )
Seat 10: iisabmaco ( $21823 )
Seat 2: DanD2c ( $53120 )
Seat 1: davecool98 ( $28345 )
Seat 9: Jarudis ( $2841 )
Seat 5: TigerWoodsTW ( $19659 )
Seat 4: cosmogonic ( $4216 )
Seat 7: jhl667 ( $41150 )
Trny:22776731 Level:8
Blinds-Antes(400/800-25)
davecool98 posts ante [25].
DanD2c posts ante [25].
Hero posts ante [25].
cosmogonic posts ante [25].
TigerWoodsTW posts ante [25].
Emit360 posts ante [25].
jhl667 posts ante [25].
DoctorFuttok posts ante [25].
Jarudis posts ante [25].
iisabmaco posts ante [25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Ah Ks ]
Emit360: n1ce
DoctorFuttok folds.
Jarudis folds.
iisabmaco raises [1600].
davecool98 folds.
DanD2c is all-In [53095]
Hero is all-In [60714]
cosmogonic folds.
TigerWoodsTW folds.
Emit360 folds.
jhl667 folds.
iisabmaco folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, Kh, 2s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
DanD2c shows [ Qs, Qc ] four of a kind, queens.
Hero shows [ Ah, Ks ] two pairs, kings and queens.
Hero wins 7619 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, kings and queens.
DanD2c wins 109240 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, queens.

So I call off a ton of chips in a race, lose the race, then go out a few hands later when I get in with JJ vs. 1010 and he spikes a 10.

I think this hand deserves a little discussion. Do I really have to call a ton of chips off here? No I don't. But I'm pretty sure the guy has something like TT, JJ, QQ or AK, a range which I'm basically only slightly behind. There's also a chance that he might have lost his mind with an AJs or AQ or something, and I don't think he plays his truly big hands like AA and KK this way. I think this is a great spot to try to pick up a ridiculous monster stack. If I win, I have a ton of chips and can muscle the table even more than I was already doing and have a great shot to go really deep in the tournament. If I lose, I still have like 8BBs and a little bit of life. I think it's a great spot to take a race and give myself a real shot at the top table. It doesn't go my way, but I like the play nonetheless...

3) $20+2 NLH Shootout on Party. I was doing ok in this thing till I open-jammed for 11BBs from the small blind with A4o and got called and beat by the BB's (who I had covered by about 1/2BB) 5To. This is just one of those "wtf" plays that I can't even try to explain.

4) $20+2 Heads-up NLH tourney on Stars. I lost in the 1st round. On maybe the 7th hand I lost 2/3 of my chips with AJ vs. AA on an AQ747 board. I then chipped up a little bit then lost it all with AA vs. 48s on a 88QTK board.

5) $3+R on Stars. I'm still in this one in about 15th with 115 people left. I'll post again if anything interesting comes up.

6) $20+2 PLO on Stars. I'm in 7th with 33 left in this. Again, I'll post about it if it goes anywhere.