Lodge Results for Sunday 01/15/06 - Week 10

Well like the New England Patriots, I was unable to three-peat the final table. Nothing steller to report this week, we had a smaller field than normal, only about 56 people with 2 alternates. In fact, the tourney finished an hour earlier than last week. The only hand I had worth reporting is KK under the gun. I raise 3 times the blinds which are at 5/10 and get 3 callers. Flop comes J6x and I bet T30 and get one caller to my left and the rest fold. Turn comes an A and I continue to bet hoping that the caller wasn't chasing Ax. He calls my T30 bet and the river is a rag, and I bet T40 which he calls stating "I want to see if you caught that ace". He turns over J5 and I take the pot with my kings. That put me ahead about T90, but my lack of cards took me down to T120 with the blinds about to go to 20/40. It was just after the rebuy period ended and I knew that the next 4 people would get a rebuy coupon to use in the future so I call a T60 bet with Q10o. Flop doesn't help and the raiser bets T200 and I call putting me all in. I catch nothing and he trips his 8's and I am out in the 30's, but get a rebuy coupon.
Side story - I invited some friends that I play with at another bar to this tournament and one of them was the guy who took me out with his poket 8's. He ends up taking 1st place catching all kind of cards. So it took me 8 weeks to make the tournament of champions when he gets it one try.