At Wheeler last night with 29 players, I really just putzed along with starting stack most of the night. Making the final table was a minor miracle and was probably 2nd shortest stack with around 5 big blinds. We got down to 6 players, paying 5, and the shortest stack insisted that we not pay the bubble. He explained later to me that he has been crushing the tournaments and never chops or pays bubble so when he is shortest he thinks it would be hypocritical to agree to pay it. O.K., guess I can agree with that logic. He was the next player out.
Now in the money (5th paid $90) but with no chips a miracle happened. A big stack raised with A/9, a smaller stack shoved with A/Q, and the biggest stack called with 9/9. The 2nd largest stack then shoved, the biggest stack tanked and finally called. The case 9 hit the flop and we were down to 3 players!! I doubled up with AA, then doubled again to pull almost even with the 2nd stack. Finding A/2 on the button shoved and was called by him with QJ. Flop good, turn good, river brings in the gutshot straight. 3rd place money was $220. Glad to win it.
2 comments:
Wahoo! Great job. I love it when 5 players suddenly become 3. Seems like a pretty good payout for third when there's only 29 players. What's the buy-in?
The buy-in is $40. There is no rake so payoffs are great.
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