A 2nd Place on Full Tilt, FTOPS, and Borgata

I have been playing on Full Tilt lately and had a decent day yesterday. I played the usual Sunday line up of events and in the $100 six handed, with one re-buy and one add on, I finished second. There were a few interesting hands along the way. The money came at 36, and right after the bubble I picked up 77 in late position with about average chips of 90,000. There was an early position 3 big blind raiser and one caller, and I called as well. The flop came 969. The initial raiser bet about half the pot and the other player called, and getting 4:1 on my money and closing the action, I thought it a good call. The turn was a beautiful red seven. Now there were still lots of hands that beat me, but I felt pretty good. The initial raiser now bet a full pot, which was getting to be a lot of chips at this point. The next to act raised and I smooth called. The initial guy then moved all in, as did the other guy. I had them covered, but only slightly, and of course called. The average stack at the time was 70,000 and all of us were above average so the pot was about 260,000.

The initial raiser showed KK and the next guy 66. No quads coming on the river, and I take the chip lead. I lost a few medium pots on the way to the final table, and when it turned blue, those of you who don't play on Full Tilt when you reach a final table it turns a very pretty blue color. Anyway I was in fourth place and had a lot of work to do. I ground my way up to third place with three remaining. There was an overly aggressive player second in chips and I was able to take a few bites from his chip stack. I did have one lucky double through the chip leader, who played very well, with A9 vs. A 10. But hey, I gave out like ten of those along the way, so why not. It is a funny thing, when it all goes in and I have the dominating hand and lose they keep quite, but if I come from behind or win a coin flip I get a ration of shit in the chat. My last hand I raise the button with 76 and he calls. The flop comes K85 and wow I flop a flush. He bet the pot and I slow call. The turn comes another spade and he checks it to me and I check it right back. The river is a blank and he moves all-in. I feel like I am probably being suckered, but most of my chips are in the pot and I call. He had Q4 and had also flopped a flush. Maybe I should have gotten away from it on the river. Live I think I could of with a decent read, but online I felt stuck.

I cant wait to start playing today on Full Tilt, with the FTOPS series starting this week and lots of WSOP satellites it should be a good couple of weeks. I am going to Borgata for there deep stack which has two first start days, Sunday the 17th and Monday the 18th finishing on the 20th. There is $500,000 guaranteed, starting chips at 30,000 with there usual great structure. The buy in is $1,500 + 150 entry fee, and I'm sure there are satellites going on until then.