1st is the worst, 2nd is the best, thayer's the one with the hairy chest by

1st is the worst, 2nd is the best, thayer's the one with the hairy chest

by shaundeeb on 11/02/07

So I wanted to toss something up quick prior to the post with my 1k HH from my recent 2nd place in the Stars Super Tuesday tourney. I took down close to 55k with the score and followed it up with another 2nd in the night hundred grand aka stuper. That tourney for the longest time has been the thorn in my side. I was down close to 12k in it with only 13k in buyins. I got a huge stack early into the money and then coasted till 2 tables left where I lost a 400k pot when avg stack was about 100k with QQ vs AA in a spot I can't avoid. I was down to 120k chips 2 hands later blinds moved upto 3k/6k guy 3xed in MP I was in co with 88 and shoved having him barely covered. He snap called with JJ I flopped an 8 and was back to a wafflecrushable stack. I played pretty snug won a huge flip to busrt the finaltable bubble and enter it with a 900k stack. 2nd place had 550k and was on the other table and timed out last hand before break. He was seated to my left at the finaltable and the 3rd place stack had about 220k. This makes for interesting dynamics and I was super active and got to 4 handed in a dogfight with the guy still sitting out . I went from CL to shorty to 3rd for a while then 2nd as the shorty busted. 3 handed lasted for a while I went card dead keep getting 3bet 4bet once with A9s the best hand I had when he 3bet he had A9o we chopped. He eventually busted to the CL I had a 3 to 1 chip disadvantage and never was able to mount a comeback and lost a flip to end it K9<44 he had a set I had a fd on the flop. 16k wasn't bad and quite happy to finally be up lifetime in that tourney

I also spent part of last week in Niagra where I didn't do anything got to 30k gave away my stack in an orbit and a half making 2 bad moves. Was down to 100 chips at 150/300/50 level after one of the bad moves and shoved next 4 hands and won them all to put me close to 6k. I never got anything going for the next level though and busted shoving 11bbs at a redic 200/400/75 level into JJ.

I also drove to Foxwoods in the morning the night of my 1k 2nd place. Thayer, Billy, and myself all played in the $600 the day we got here. Play was soooo bad. My starting table no one could beat playmoney tables I got really tilted by their redic bad table talk. I was also on 20 hours no sleep and a big win and a tourney I wasn't motivated for. Played suped lag vs the live nits got a big stack before losing a 30k pot when avg was 5k when I had 1 out and rivered it but the other guy already hit a higher set. Was a goofy hand and hard to describe in a few words.

I am planning on waking up in 3 hours to play the 1500 at the woods again so hopefully another big score to report.

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dusty222 says

so you guys are at Foxwoods? played lots of craps there through the years....played and won at a very bad limit game a few years ago........saw Jeter's play against A's in 2001 playoffs there.......also saw the bear drink his first legal beer with me at a bar there....an interesting milestone....gl to you all....

11/02/07

Anonymous says

Congrats on the 1k, and get some sleep.

11/02/07

harlem says

Good luck on the 1500 and pace make sure to pace yourself. Red Bulls should help.

11/02/07

Jason (Anonymous) says

Are you saying you just won $55k followed by $16k and you won $85k just a few weeks ago. OMG. You are freakin sick good. Wow! Keep it up. I just started playing poker about a year ago and cannot imagine what it would be like to win so much. It must be such a high.

11/02/07

HLS2k6 says

Hey Shaun,

We played 5/10 HORSE/HOE at FW last night total degen style. I'm the guy you clearly thought was too nerdy to be a 2+2'er when I called your buddy "ship it crucial boy." You know, the one who couldn't win a pot against you even though you weren't looking at your cards.

I was really surprised when I saw you in this month's Cardplayer. I could tell you were a really good player who was just f'ing around, but I had no idea just how good. Good luck in the rest of the tournies, although I would recommend looking at your cards from time to time.

-Mike

11/03/07