Bubbles...

On Tuesday I bubbled for the WSOP on UB. I got the chip lead with about 35 left, played for an idiot for 45 minutes, then started jamming and got to the final table. They gave away three seats with fourth getting $1,000. Down to four, in fourth place, with about 12 bb's I jam from the SB into the short stack BB (has me covered by maybe 2 BB's) with AT. He calls with AQ. Flop is T82, but the Q comes on the turn and I bubble. That's the worst. I had a 2005 seat hinging on dodging 8 outs on the river and lost ($0 for second place) and now a 2006 seat if I can dodge three outs twice. (Of course, I did get it in with the worst hand!)

Also played a DS for Atlantis and made the final table again but got fourth. In a third qualifier I ended up 14th of about 200 on Dise for a Bay 101 seat (3 seats). I made one very bad call that cost me most of my stack and then lost on a coin flip to bust.

Last night I played a $25 rebuy for the $650 super. This one had a comical ending in my favor. There were two short stacks and two large stacks with 3 seats given out (4th received $175). Amazingly, the short stacks watch as 1st place busts 2nd place with set over set! wow.


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PokerStars Game #3281621508: Tournament #15886064, Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200) - 2005/12/09 - 00:24:53 (ET)
Table '15886064 2' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: murphstahoe (56873 in chips)
Seat 3: Nordberg (17193 in chips)
Seat 4: giangi73 (16343 in chips)
Seat 9: donjuan_Corn (45591 in chips)
murphstahoe: posts the ante 75
Nordberg: posts the ante 75
giangi73: posts the ante 75
donjuan_Corn: posts the ante 75
giangi73: posts small blind 600
donjuan_Corn: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Nordberg [Kc 7h]
murphstahoe: raises 2400 to 3600
Nordberg: folds
giangi73: folds
donjuan_Corn: calls 2400
*** FLOP *** [5d 2h Ad]
donjuan_Corn: bets 7200
murphstahoe: raises 7200 to 14400
donjuan_Corn: calls 7200
*** TURN *** [5d 2h Ad] [7d]
donjuan_Corn: bets 1200
murphstahoe: calls 1200
*** RIVER *** [5d 2h Ad 7d] [7c]
donjuan_Corn: bets 3600
murphstahoe: raises 33998 to 37598 and is all-in
donjuan_Corn: calls 22716 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
murphstahoe: shows [5h 5c] (a full house, Fives full of Sevens)
donjuan_Corn: shows [2d 2c] (a full house, Deuces full of Sevens)
murphstahoe collected 91932 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 91932 | Rake 0
Board [5d 2h Ad 7d 7c]
Seat 2: murphstahoe showed [5h 5c] and won (91932) with a full house, Fives full of Sevens
Seat 3: Nordberg (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: giangi73 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: donjuan_Corn (big blind) showed [2d 2c] and lost with a full house, Deuces full of Sevens