Wow, that was a thrilling last event in the Super League, making it to the final table for a second time and with that result jumping over the number two on the leaderboard. This all contributed to a $640 award, my biggest cash-out as an amateur poker player so far.

About the double chance event on Sunday: that wasn’t a success. There was barely room for some advanced plays and it turned into a turbo because the game was slowed down a lot in this full ring game. No pleasant experience at all and an early knock-out, not even reaching top 200. But  I was already looking forward to the final event, the second real deep stack tournament of the league. This was a great tournament, because it was also a six-seater.

Everything went perfect for me this night, just like during the PLO event. My first goal was to defend my third place on the leaderboard by running as deep as possible. This wasn’t very easy, because three players who were just behind me also made a deep run. But they were eliminated one by one in the ultimate final phase and suddenly I noticed the number two of the leaderboard also being knocked out. I had to finish 8th or better to catch up with him, so when I was 11/11 I switched gears and gambled for more chips, resulting in a 6th place in the end, another final table. First place was never within reach, as the leader played another outstanding tournament, finishing in 5th place. No doubt he deserved the win.

I selected two hands from this tournament, first of course my knock-out hand, my last hand of the league:

Ante=1200
Seat 1: liosi – 176,921
Seat 2: lordflasheart13 – 53,081
Seat 3: LaudVetinari – 314,944 (BUTTON)
Seat 4: douglas1066 – 354,486 (SMALL BLIND, 6000)
Seat 5: albosan – 155,338 (BIG BLIND, 12000)
Seat 6: KiwiBugs – 295,230

Dealing to lordflasheart13
KiwiBugs folds – liosi folds
lordflasheart13 raises to 51,881 (all-in)
LaudVetinari folds
douglas1066 calls 51,881
albosan folds
Pot sizes: 122,962

douglas1066 shows
Dealing Flop
Dealing Turn
Dealing River
lordflasheart13 has High Card: Ace
douglas1066 has One Pair: 6s
douglas1066 wins 122,962 with: One Pair: 6s

Obviously, this hand plays itself in this case. Note however that ‘albosan’ (topping the leaderboard), also sitting on the final table like I told you, was also at my table during the first couple of hours of the tournament. I really saw some awesome plays from this guy, being very focused while playing for the big win. I think this is perfectly showed in the other hand I saved, when  I collided with albosan for the first time. This was after SEVEN minutes of play and the hand really gave  me the creeps, although I had Aces:

Seat 1: 3DJohnny – 4,990
Seat 2: mucker007 – 4,940 (BUTTON)
Seat 3: ProfULLRICH – 5,070 (SMALL BLIND 10)
Seat 4: lordflasheart13 – 4,970 (BIG BLIND 20)
Seat 5: mjhellraizer – 5,000
Seat 6: albosan – 5,030

Dealing to lordflasheart13
mjhellraizer folds
albosan raises to 100
3DJohnny folds – mucker007 folds – ProfULLRICH folds
lordflasheart13 raises to 385
albosan raises to 740
lordflasheart13 calls 740
Pot sizes: 1,490

Dealing Flop
lordflasheart13 checks
albosan bets 745
lordflasheart13 calls 745
Pot sizes: 2,980
Dealing Turn
lordflasheart13 checks
albosan bets 1,490
lordflasheart13 raises to 3,485 (all-in)
albosan folds
lordflasheart13 wins 5,960

He reraises me preflop and I decide to ‘slowplay’ my Aces, if he has Kings, I want him to think I have QQ, JJ or TT. But the King flops and that scares the hell out of me: playing a deepstack, only 7 minutes in the tourney and Kings is one of the hands  I definitely put him on. Of course it’s possible he wanted to make a statement with any kind of hand OR he had QQ or JJ himself, but I decide to just call and see if he slows down on the turn. Turn is an ACE and now I want him to have Kings. He commits 60% of his stack and I go all-in. He takes all his time and just because he’s such a great player I really think he could have folded KK here (he played directly against me for the overall win). Anyway, albosan has 2k left after the hand but he immedately recovered and by making some superb calls he was among the chipleaders again some hours later. Congratulations to albosan and the rest of the top ten (see below), till next year for a new Super League!