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The seconds and minutes after busting out of a tournament is a pretty gross feeling. It's obviously worse in big main events but nonetheless it sucks in even a small hundo tourney. I played the three day Borgata Deepstak the started sunday..It was a relatively inexpensive $350 buyin that got 600 players...The structure was great..25k starting chips, but for a 4 day event..50k for first place is a little low...54 spots paid..with 54th paying $550 it wasnt a huge bubble..cashing is nice for multiple days work but still its not like a true deepstak or main event where the lowest cashers still get 4 figures...
Fast forward to yesterday..I came into day 2 with 45k chips..below avg but not short..My first two tables were great..I chipped up to 300k over the first 6 hours...I could do no wrong...Bluffing, squeezing, stop n going, picking up nice hands and getting great value from having the nuts..it got to a point where nobody at my table wanted to play a pot with me...THEN----
I got moved to another table. I knew a few of the ppl at this table and one guy in particular I know well...I got a little aggravated before the dinner break when the one guy reraised me, said he would show his hand to the table..then renegged and only showed one card..very classless but...I should expect this.
The crushing hand after dinner break came with 65 ppl left..I had 220k..Raised the 5k 10k blinds to 28k with red 10s..The big stack who played tough on the other end called the 28k..Then the tilting small blind moved all in for 130k more which was an obvious squeeze play..Fairly certain I had the best hand, I reisolated all in..The big stack folded and it was me and the SB heads up for a 320K pot..I still had 75k behind so if I win..I have 400K and one of the chip leaders in the tourney...I have 10s...he flips over pocket 3s..THE FLOP>>>>>>>> 3 2 2...Ugh.
So that crippled and then with 56 left..I got it all in with AQ suited and the Big Blind woke up with AK..and that was that..
Rough full stop.