I just had a pretty short, but nevertheless very exciting tournament. I played the $8+.8 deepstack sit ‘n go with 90 players but it didn’t really last as long as I prepared for.

So I sat down behind my screen with a bag of chips and a couple of drinks. The tournament started and I was on fire right from the beginning. I got some big hands like AK and AQ and was able to win some rather small pots with them. Then I got an even better hand, pocket cowboys:

So everything worked out perfect, with an opponent having JJ and the flop being covered with all low cards. Especially in a deepstack tournament like this, a double-up is enormous. But then I lost a big pot with those same Kings:

Now at first, I was very mad and screamed things about cold deck to myself but in fact I should have figured he can almost only have QQ or JJ in that spot, flatcalling a reraise preflop. I lost another big pot a few moments later, basically because of tilting a little after this pot (bad plan). Then I got eliminated in the following hand:

I’m quiete convinced that the player on the cut-off is making a move in late position but my stack has become too small to reraise without being committed on the flop, so I shove all-in. I indeed happen to be a  huge favorite but the King flops… So I finish in 76th place after an exciting start of the tournament.

Another small deception in my third tournament ($2+.2). However, I had more fun playing this one than the previous one, where I was just carddead. This time I finished 35th.

I took a nice pot in the beginning with mediocre suited connectors:

This hand is just about representing everything: by minraising the flop I can represent a very strong hand like a queen as well as a flushdraw. Of course if you choose this tactic you better follow trough with it and it succeeded.

Subsequently I woke up with pocket sevens:

It’s important to know that the original raiser preflop just lost a big pot with a bad beat and I kinda expected him to steam so that’s why I just limp. So I wanted to be heads-up and I put in a big reraise, but the other player (who was playing fairly loose passive) calls anyway. We check towards the river and I know there’s no value in betting there.

What happens after this was really cruel: I went from deepstack to elimination in a rather short period. First I faced a bad beat with QQ against KT and then the following cold deck followed:

Now I should have figured he flopped a set after the minraise on the flop, it’s a standard move from most online players. So I guess my preflop raise was not bigh enough to get the deuces out of the way…After that it was pretty much over.