Lodge Results for Sunday 02/12/06 - Week 14

Interesting day on Sunday at The Lodge. First of all, I went 4 blind levels of 20 minutes each without winning one pot. My luck was so bad that my K9 was beat out by K10 which cost me T100 in chips. Luckily I lost all my chips on an all in with Q4 so I could use my rebuy coupon hoping this run of bad cards would end. After a few more orbits of blinds and I am down to T185 in chips I look down at J10. Someone raises to 150 and the player to my right calls and I decide to call as well. Two other people call after me so this is looking like a good pot. Flop comes KK5 and I figure my time is up. Everybody checks and the turn is an A and again everybody checks. River is a J so I throw in the remaining 35 chips and the two callers after me FOLD!!! All in turns over pocket 9's and the guy to my right turns over pocket 3's and I win the pot. Then the turn of luck begins. Over the next 2 1/2 hours I get pocket queens three times and each time they hold up against Kx each time with all in bets or calls. Soon I am up to T1600 and our table breaks down. My new seat is to the right of a maniac who either goes all in on preflop or on the flop no matter what. Since nobody is calling him, I am not sure what he is up to. Eventually someone calls and the maniac sucks out on him so I knew this would be a tough place. I tighten up and hope to either wait for the table to break down, or someone to call him and take him out. Eventually the table breaks down and I move. I get some more good cards such as pocket aces which hold up against the pocket 2's that went all in. Eventually I am at the final table with T2500 in chips, but I do not get any cards, and the maniac is to my right now and now he is going all in every other hand. Two people get taken out by him because he gets his flush on the river. After a few more blinds, I look down at pocket 10's and go all in with T500 with the blinds at 300/600. Small blind calls and big blind checks. Flop comes 655 and I feel good. Player to my left checks and big blind goes all in and the player to my left calls. I turn over my 10's and the player to my left turns over 78s. Turn is a blank and the river comes 9!!!! so he catches his straight and I finish in 6th place. I am happy with that especially with the cards I was getting the first hour.