I really do hate this fucking game. I was up to 180000 when we reached the money of 18. The average was 75000ish. I lost some small pots and took 150000 to the break with 18 left. Jordan Morgan was short and doubled up through me when he shoved JTo for 8BBs from the cutoff, and I called with A4ss. The board came Jxxxx. A few rounds later Jordan raised from the cutoff again to 6500 at 1/2000. I found Ah4d in the BB and set him in for 33900. He called with AQ and flopped me mostly dead on Qxx. I busted Mike Spiegal and, I was around 122000 when the bustout hand came up. The average was around 95000. Blazer-wearing guy from last night limped UTG. He was chipleader at the time. He was limping a ton. I found KQdd in MP and raised to 9000. It was folded back to him, and he called. The flop came Td 5d 5s. He checked, and I bet 12500 into 23700. I wanted to bet small enough that I could 3-bet all-in if he raised me and still have FE. He instacalled. The turn was the 2d. He instabet all-in for my 100000 into a pot of 48700. I thought for about 5 seconds and called. This is never, ever a fold in tournament poker in this spot. I have never seen a guy shove 2x the pot with a full house in a situation like this. There is a small chance he has the nut flush, but this too would be a silly bet. He is most likely compounding the mistake of slowplaying flopped trips or a chance he made a flush with 87dd and is just making a scared all-in bet. I almost fell out of my fucking chair when he showed me two black twos for a full house to have me drawing dead. There is one card in the deck that gets me to put any more money in with the losing hand on the turn, and it got there. I earned something shitty like 9000 for my efforts. I'm flying out tomorrow.
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