Lodge Results for Sunday 01/29/06 - Week 12

Another great week at The Lodge this Sunday with a 2nd place finish. That puts me only 40 points behind the overall point leader who has 2 first place finishes. He told me this week that he started to feel some pressure with me being "only" 185 points behind him, now I bet he will be sweating next week. There were not too many standout hands this week, but I noticed I had some luck with low pocket pairs. I had pocket 3's one hand and two callers with me in the big blind so I just checked. Flop comes 223 and I have the boat. I throw out a T40 bet which was the big blind at the time and both call. Next card is a 4 and this time small blind bets T40 and I raise to T150 which puts me all in.. Button folds and small blind calls and turns over 34 and the river does not help and I am alive again. The next hand I remember was A2s and I am small blind. The blinds are 25-50 and I have T420 in chips left. I call big blind and then he raises to T250. Everyone folds to me and I re-raise all in and he calls and turns over A9s. I get ready to stand up from the table and then a 2 hits on the river doubling me up!! That was my suckout beat of the evening. I then was short stacked until the final table when I tripled up with pocket 5's when the flop came A58 and went all in and had two callers. The problem was there was a player who was hitting everything and had a very dominant stack. We were able to chip away and he was down to his final chips with an all in blind. He had 3 callers including me with pocket 5's and he turns over pocket QUEENS!!!! and quadruples up. Eventually he took other players down and it was heads up me and huge stack about a 6-1 favorite. First hand heads up I get J7s and push all in, he calls with A9s and gets his ace and its over.
I am doing very well with a 1st place finish and 2 2nd place finishes in 4 weeks. Next week is going to be a bit different with a shootout style where the top two from each table advance to the final table.