I play in $55 rebuy live tournament every Sunday at my local game. This used to be a really good tourney with 3 tables and $2,000 guaranteed for 1st but lately it has only been 2 tables. Today there were only 15 players. Payouts were 1200, 600, 300 for 1st-3rd. I had to rebuy early when my AA got cracked by 65. After the rebuy period I had a better than avg. stack. I lost a couple of hands early and got shortstacked. I pushed with K6 and the BB called with 55. He hit a 5 on the flop while I made 2 pair and I was out 8th.
On U.B. I played the $1 turbo rebuy tourney. I really like this tourney. I’ve played it 4 times in the past 2 weeks and finished 4th last week. Tonight I was the chip leader at the 1st break after I tripled up with AA. My stack never went down from there. I didn’t stay the chip leader long and actually got down to 30th or so even though I was steadily building my stack. This tourney is crazy b/c the blinds escalate every 5 min. There were 239 entries and 1st place was $273. I was in for $4 b/c I rebought at the very beginning to have double stack and then I doubled added on at the end of the rebuy period. I was able to move through the field picking up mostly uncontested pots. I played pretty tight but I did steal from some limpers preflop a few times by pushing pot sized bets to make everyone fold.
When we got down to 2 tables I hit my rush. I won a couple of big pots in a row knocking out 4 players to become the chip leader once again. I had 4 times the chips that #2 had. By this time the blinds are like $20K and $40K and I have $850K in chips so it’s all in or fold for most of the stacks. We get to the final table rather quickly. From there we got down to 3 pretty quick and the stacks are fairly even with me having the slight lead. I get QQ on the button and make a pot-sized raise and SB calls and BB folds. Flop comes 457 rainbow and I bet the pot after he checks to me. He reraises all in and I call. He is open-ended with A6. Hits his A on the turn to double up. I am now down to $200K while he has $1.6mil and other guy has about $700K. Looks bad for me after cruising this entire tourney. To make a long story short I double up twice in a row then #1 knocks out #2 and heads up lasts for maybe 3 hands and I took him out on the last hand with A7 vs. AQ when I hit my 7. Yea me.
That gets me closer to my goal of $1,000 by the end of this month on UB. I better win a big one tomorrow or the next day to get there.