PokerStars Tournament #84311864, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
81 players
$200.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $1010.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/18 - 13:30:00 (ET)

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I don’t play in a lot of these events, but during the London meet-up, Liam bugged me about it, and I decided that I should probably try to find the time a bit more often. So yesterday, on a whim, really, I sign up for the $10 buy-in Sunday night tournament at Stars. In fact, on enough of a whim that I was one of the late registrations; the tournament had already started when I got there. But it was fun to play in the tournament. Tom McEvoy was a guest on this Sunday, but we never sat at the same table. He had the chip lead at one point, apparently, but was knocked out when there were three-or-so tables left. I didn’t keep close tabs.

I parlayed my way to the final table by doing some selective bluffing and stealing and got there with a just above average stack. From that point on, however, I became Mr. Steal. The final table went from 9 to 5 in a reasonable time, but then we sat there with five people for quite awhile. This, in fact, was good for me. I was the big stack at that point, and this gave me lots of time to just keep stealing. By the time we were down to 3 people, the stacks looked like this:

Seat 1: ttbud (17854 in chips)
Seat 4: aloevera (19289 in chips)
Seat 6: FPau (84357 in chips)

… with the blinds at 1500/3000 and the ante at 300.

I knocked out ttbud with 82o vs. A7o (rivered straight, obviously)  and then sat with a 5:1 chip lead advantage over Aloe, who had the unfortunate job of trying to fight back versus someone who raises her all-in every hand, which was my game plan at that point. She didn’t adjust quickly enough and folded the first three hands of heads-up play, which put her down to 12k in chips and my chip lead at 10:1. She doubled up at some point, dwindled down to 10k again, then doubled up again and then…

POKERSTARS GAME #17524442409: TOURNAMENT #84311864, $10+$1 HOLD’EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL XV (1500/3000) - 2008/05/18 - 17:30:27 (ET)
Table ‘84311864 2′ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 4: aloevera (20156 in chips)
Seat 6: FPau (101344 in chips)
aloevera: posts the ante 300
FPau: posts the ante 300
FPau: posts small blind 1500
aloevera: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FPau [7c Td]
FPau: raises 18000 to 21000
aloevera: calls 16856 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1144) returned to FPau
*** FLOP *** [6s 2c 7d]
*** TURN *** [6s 2c 7d] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [6s 2c 7d Jh] [3s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
aloevera: shows [Ts Kd] (high card King)
FPau: shows [7c Td] (a pair of Sevens)
FPau said, “gg”
FPau collected 40312 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 40312 | Rake 0
Board [6s 2c 7d Jh 3s]
Seat 4: aloevera (big blind) showed [Ts Kd] and lost with high card King
Seat 6: FPau (button) (small blind) showed [7c Td] and won (40312) with a pair of Sevens

… and the winner was I.

Aloevera will get the book signed by Tom McEvoy, and I hope she enjoys it.  Speaking of enjoying things, I’m being told that dinner’s ready, so I best be heading downstairs.

/FP