I bubble and Atimo takes it down…
Ended up going out of the Bellagio in 55th, right around the bubble… which sucks. I opened utg with AQh and David Singer called in late position. Flop came 233 with a heart. I lead out and Singer raised a little bit. Really thought my AQ was still the best hand… thought Singer would have considered raising preflop with a pair, and he had called pretty quick, so I went with it. He had black tens… thought a bit before laying it down, but he saw I didn’t really want the call and did the right thing. I’d have to catch up… an ace, a queen, a runner runner flush or straight. All added up to just shy of 30%. It didn’t come and I was out of the tournament. About five hours later I was on my back, coming out both ends with some sort of flu. It didn’t last long… was feeling better about 24 hours later when Michele came down with it too. Nu, watching all these things on the news about swine flu makes me wonder if it was really the Bellagio coffee or something much more sinister…
So the kid I was talking about in the last post that I said was so good ended up winning the thing. I predicted he wouldn’t win because in the few hours I was playing with him I thought I had picked up a little read that I was pretty confident some of the players left in the tournament would have picked up. Talking to Joey later that night, he said something that I agreee with… that it takes about three years of live play before you know how to work out the live tells in your game.
But he did win, and I was happy to see it. I would have been much happier seeing myself in the winner’s video, but it’s nice to see a young unknown get his moment and I look forward to seeing him in a lot more tournaments.