My problem in all the qualifiers was that I never seemed to have a hand in the closing stages of a tournament. That and the fact that my heads-up play sucks badly!
In the E-WSOP with 2 qualifiers (where I finished 3rd) I was way ahead of the 3rd placed person. He was going all-in every hand. I never had a hand to call him with.. Though, in retrospect perhaps I should have called with Q2o, as at least the Q was a relatively high card compared with some of the other rags I was being dealt.
The one excellent hand I did get dealt was KK in the BB, and the all-in guy folded to me. It was almost as if my cards were marked or he someone could tell what they were.
This coupled with the fact that the chip leader called my blind every time and was more prepared to go heads up with me and knock me out than challenge the third placed guy. In the end my stack got progressively wore down until I had to go all-in and lost.
Sick of coming so close but not quite qualifying for the E-WSOP online final I decided to shell out $450 and play it anyway... Finished 13th / 60 with 6 qualifiers going to the main event in Vienna.
Blinds are 100/200. I'm dealt KK in late position. Folds round to me, I raise to 800 (I have 4000 chips at this point). Small blind folds. Big Blind calls. Heads up, me and him.
Flop 5c 6d Qc.
I go all-in. Big Blind calls. He turns over 8c, 9c
Turn x
River 7d
And I go out on a gut-shot. However, I think he may have been slightly ahead odds-wise as had a lot of outs (13 I think). I think my problem here was my initial 800 raise wasn't enough...
Felt sick as a dog going out, especially as the guy who knocked me out was then able to fold himself all the way to 6th place.
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