effin'river

This evening I had no luck whatsoever. QQ in hand, flop comes ATQ, guy goes all-in, I call, he hits his J on the river, holding AK. The same thing pretty much happened in the three tourneys I played this evening.

Worst with AA, I raise decently from late position, get one caller. Flop comes 73K. I raise 2/3rd pot, get called. Turn is 9. Guy bets 150, I reraise, he calls. This goes on till forever, until I am all-in and he shows 99.

Sucks to be me.

Lightning edit: Just won the first hand of an $8 Q with AAA, doubling up on a 99. I lose the same tourney in 4th place (1st to 3rd gets a seat, obv) with A6 on an A6T flop... to... AA.

betfair and the WSOPE London

So I am trying to Q for the WSOPE London now. The client of choice being betfairPoker, they have awesome deals on Qing, it seems. I pitched them against PP and PS and both of them miserably failed, both in the number and frequency of satellites and the amount of $$ to buy-in to them. A 109$ superturbo satellite with 4000 people? Right.

So I won the $0.01 Sunday special satellite (Yes, that's one US cent) to qualify for the $100 finale taking place that evening. My friend skalex joined me via Skype as he was playing all kinds of sunday million events, so we chattet a while. The qualifier was 150 players, 2500$ stacks and 20min levels, so it would be a long ride.

After falling back a little (I was as low as 700 at some point), I won 4 all-ins in a row, making it to almost 8000 chips in the process with 30 players left in the tourney. The blinds are 400/800, the ante is 75, I am the small blind, holding AQ, raising to 1200. The table folds, except for the chipleader to my right, sailing comfy at about 40k. He calls, the flop comes 7TT.

I think... this guy is pretty loose. I raise 1800, get re-raised for 3600.

Fold or All-in?

All-in. He does not have a ten, I am sure.
And I was right about that.

He shows 99, I dont hit anything and am out.
Which goes to tell ya, ONE difficult decision will break your neck sometimes.