Posted by Dr Fro 10:09 AM
First tournament
On the very first hand, I am all-in pre-flop with AQ against TT. I lost when he turned a 10.

Second tournament
On the third hand, I get KQ in a 4-way pot. The flop comes AJT giving me the broadway straight. Four of us end up all in. One guy has JJ and another TT, each making a set. The fourth guy is drawing to the nut (King) flush, which he gets and quadruples up.

Third tournament
On the third hand, I get AKs. I raise and get 2 callers. Ace comes on the flop, I be big, and get 1 caller. Turn is a Q, my opponent goes all-in and I call. He had QQ.

So, over 5 hands, I busted out 3 times. Twice I was way ahead and Once it was a coin toss.

Fourth tournament
Then it got weirder. I played one final tournament and got first place. The game was chock-full of bizarre hands. Alone, not one hand is all that odd, but in the context of what happened in the 3 previous tournaments, this extraordinary string of luck in my final tournament was noteworthy:
1) My pocket 8's made a set and I netted 390 TC
2) I netted 540 TC when I turned the nut flush
3) I went all-in preflop with TT. He called with AA. I netted 1235 when my pocket T's made a set. ...Lucky....
4) The next hand I flopped a straight
5) I netted 935 when my pocket 3's saw a flop of 337 to make quads. My opponent had A7 and went all in when the A came on the turn.

Well what is so amazing about the above? In all this time, I never lost more than the BB on any single hand. I had over 1/2 the chips when the next hand came up:

6). There are 5 of us left. All of the other 4 players go all in preflop with TT, JJ, AK, KT. The Jacks make a set, and there are 2 of us left.
7) In the button I flop the wheel, get a call and now have 75% of the chips. I have now been playing for 20 minutes.

It didn't take long to win after that.

So, after those first 3 tournaments when I felt the gambling gods had a mighty vengeance that they were taking out on me, I said to myself, "I simply can't get a break today".

Often the "long run" can take months to iron things out. Little did I know that the long run would arrive all within about 30 minutes.

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