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First off, I would like to apologize for not updating this the last two weeks. I really don't have a good excuse, I was just being a slacker. Now on to the good stuff, or bad stuff actually.

After my short break from poker to get my head straight after the last big tournament, I have been playing more the last week with some moderate success. My real job keeps getting in the way of all my poker fun, but last night was the big monthly tournament. We had 42 players at $500 each, so the pot was rather nice, and first place was over $8500.

I start off with a couple bad beat and get short stacked early, but make a nice comeback with back to back hands of AdJd. The irony of it all is that I have been knocked out of more tournaments with AJ than any other hand (or at least that is how I seem to remember it). We get down to 11 players and I am under average stack, but still not in desperation mode when I get 3d3c in middle position. We are at 400/800 with 75 ante and I have about 10K in chips. There is one caller in front of me. I call. Two callers behind. SB fold and BB checks.

Flop is 6c4c3s. BB goes all in and has me barely covered. Fold. I actually stress out for a minute about my call because of the possible flush draw, and the possibility that he might have 74 in the BB. I do eventually call. Fold. Fold. He shows Qs6d, and immediately starts counting out how much he has to pay me out. As you can probably guess from the title of this blog, he had a 1.92% chance to win the hand. Since this gets us to the final table, we have a crowd of about 30 people watching the hand. Turn is 4h. River 6s.

Obviously I was in shock and disbelief. I did handle it about as well as you can possibly handle a beat like that. Since it is the tournament I run, I then had to consolidate to the final table and then distribute the cash prizes. It was difficult to go from devastated tournament player to courteous tournament director, but luckily I have some good friends who helped with the transition. Everyone was very supportive and apologetic, especially my friend who actually won the hand. Unfortunately, you cant cash supportive and apologetic chips.

I still had a great time, but $8500 would have been much more fun. I promise to update this every Friday from now one.

Good Luck!
Martin