Fifth hand of a 20 table (180 person) MTT at P*. Stacks are still around the starting 1500 each.
WIth 7-7, I raise to 4xBB and get re-raised to 10xBB. I make the call and flop quad sevens. One of the few places where everyone agrees that slow-playing is the right play. The first guy bets 300, I go into the tank and then call, the other player goes all in. The original bettor calls. WHAT?! I flopped quad sevens and I just got two all-ins bet to me?! Easiest call ever.
1400 to 4140 just like *snap* that.
This hand wasn't really a cooler for the other guys... One pushed with J-6 and got called by J-J. A dumb play for J-6 (he had position, maybe he read weakness), maybe a cooler for JJ.
But it gets better.
PokerStars Game #7244628474: Tournament #37043583, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/11/30 - 20:22:50 (ET)
Table '37043583 13' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: liegs1 (1380 in chips)
Seat 2: WedgeRock (1400 in chips)
Seat 3: tsoy1973 (1470 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: Santini05 (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: Sparks642 (1370 in chips)
Seat 6: il2randr (1480 in chips)
Seat 7: Dsgrntldone (1280 in chips)
Seat 8: Big Bes (1600 in chips)
Seat 9: dongioanni (2050 in chips)
il2randr: posts small blind 10
Dsgrntldone: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WedgeRock [7c 7d]
Big Bes: folds
dongioanni: folds
liegs1: calls 20
WedgeRock: raises 60 to 80
tsoy1973: folds
Santini05: folds
Sparks642: raises 120 to 200
il2randr: folds
Dsgrntldone: folds
liegs1: calls 180
WedgeRock: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [7h 7s 9h]
liegs1: bets 300
WedgeRock: calls 300
Sparks642: raises 870 to 1170 and is all-in
liegs1: raises 10 to 1180 and is all-in
WedgeRock: calls 880
*** TURN *** [7h 7s 9h] [3d]
*** RIVER *** [7h 7s 9h 3d] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
liegs1: shows [Js 6d] (a pair of Sevens)
WedgeRock: shows [7c 7d] (four of a kind, Sevens)
WedgeRock collected 20 from side pot
Sparks642: shows [Jc Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
Sparks642 is sitting out
WedgeRock collected 4140 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4160 Main pot 4140. Side pot 20. | Rake 0
Board [7h 7s 9h 3d As]
Seat 1: liegs1 showed [Js 6d] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 2: WedgeRock showed [7c 7d] and won (4160) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 3: tsoy1973 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Santini05 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Sparks642 (button) showed [Jc Jh] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 6: il2randr (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Dsgrntldone (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Big Bes folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: dongioanni folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Very next hand, I wake up to AA! Raise to 8xBB, hoping some would think I was being a bully. It worked. One guy raises all-in and before it gets back to me, I have another caller! Two more all-ins bet to me when I have the best hand! Even better, the other players were playing A-Jo and A-Ko. Unfortunately, I couldn't improve my aces, but unless someone hit four cards to the flush or three cards to the straight, the only way I could lose was if one of them made trips.
No bad beat, cracked aces here. Just another $5600 pot!
PokerStars Game #7244646407: Tournament #37043583, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/11/30 - 20:24:02 (ET)
Table '37043583 13' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: WedgeRock (4180 in chips)
Seat 3: tsoy1973 (1470 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: Santini05 (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: il2randr (1470 in chips)
Seat 7: Dsgrntldone (1260 in chips)
Seat 8: Big Bes (1600 in chips)
Seat 9: dongioanni (2050 in chips)
Dsgrntldone: posts small blind 10
Big Bes: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WedgeRock [As Ad]
mdg103 is connected
dongioanni: calls 20
WedgeRock: raises 140 to 160
tsoy1973: folds
Santini05 has timed out
Santini05: folds
Santini05 is sitting out
il2randr: raises 1310 to 1470 and is all-in
Dsgrntldone: folds
Big Bes: folds
Santini05 has returned
dongioanni: calls 1450
WedgeRock: raises 1310 to 2780
dongioanni: calls 580 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Td 4s 8s]
*** TURN *** [Td 4s 8s] [8h]
*** RIVER *** [Td 4s 8s 8h] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dongioanni: shows [Ah Js] (a pair of Eights)
WedgeRock: shows [As Ad] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
WedgeRock collected 1160 from side pot
il2randr: shows [Ks Ac] (a pair of Eights)
il2randr is sitting out
WedgeRock collected 4440 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5600 Main pot 4440. Side pot 1160. | Rake 0
Board [Td 4s 8s 8h 2c]
Seat 2: WedgeRock showed [As Ad] and won (5600) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 3: tsoy1973 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Santini05 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: il2randr (button) showed [Ks Ac] and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 7: Dsgrntldone (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Big Bes (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: dongioanni showed [Ah Js] and lost with a pair of Eights
In two hands, I took my stack of 1400 (below the startng stack) to 7730 (more than 5.5 times larger) and first place, only six hands into the tournament. The only downside is that right after that, the table broke and I didn't get to take advantage of my image to steal some more...
Mind you, I'm not complaining.
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