Hey guys! I just finished up playing the second ever "bigdogpckt5s invitational". I made a much better effort at winning my own tourney this week as I finished in 5th place. I really thought I was going to stone-cold bubble the tourney because I was really short being 19 of 19 in chips and 18 people made the money. There ended up being an absurdly big pot on the bubble where "liqvandurr", the chip leader at the time, ended up 5-bet shoving all-in against "miguelprado". For those of you who don't know, "miguelprado" is Steve Gross. This guy, in my honest opinion, is THE BEST nl mtt player in the world! So on the bubble, with 19 left, "liqvandurr" 5-bet shoved Steve who was 3rd in the chips at the time with j7. Steve made the call with ak. The board flopped with blanks but an 8 on the river gave "liqvandurr" a straight to bubble "miguelprado".
So I had made the money, now I had to set my sights on picking up some much needed chips so that I could make a run at winning this thing. I started getting really aggressive, and was putting in my chips while I still have a fair amount of fold equity. I never got called on my first 4 or 5 shoves which was great because when I finally did double, it was for a 35-bb pot. I actually entered into the final table 2nd in chips! I had 80k in chips and the bb was 2000. Unfortunately for me, immediately on my left was the chips leader. He had almost 300k in chips, so that was quite a chip lead. Not only that, but he is a well known mtt reg "usctrojans" (Scott Freeman). Hes pretty much a legend in the mtt world and I was extremely unhappy with my seat draw at the final table.
I managed to pick off a couple of the shorties and actually had a pretty good stack going at 160k in chips. Unfortunately, with 5 people left I got into a huge flip situation for a massive pot. I had QQ and my opponent had AK. The flop was dry but the ace of spades on the turn gave "rplrpl" the win and most of my chips. I was suddenly sitting 5th in chips. I picked up ace 6 in the bb with about 18 big blinds left when "checknorriz" opened the button. I 3-bet shoved and he snap-called with 99. I missed my 3 outer, and the bounty, and my tourney life went to "checknorriz". He actually played really well the whole time and put my bounty to good use taking down the tourney beating "usctrojans" heads up.
Congrats to "checknorriz" for winning the bounty and ultimately the win in the tourney.
We will see you all next week.
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