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Most absurd $4.40/180 SnG Final Table ever

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  1. Electric_Eye Electric_Eye is offline

    Garden City, MI
    United States

    Posts: 41
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    Jun 15th, 2006 (6/15/2006 9:17am)

    Last night, I'm in a $4.40 180 SnG on Stars, and get to the final table with an average stack size. About an hour later, we're down to three, and I take a horrible beat that leaves me with about 15K in chips with blinds at 1500/3000.

    Stack sizes look as such:

    Me - 15K
    Villian - 146K
    Player 3 - 109K

    I go on an awesome rush, and take down 12 of the next 17 pots. In hand 18, I double up and completely cripple Villian when I flop TPTK and he pushes me all-in and misses his open-ended straight draw.

    Stack sizes now look like:

    Me - 170K
    Villian - 22K
    Player 3 - 78K

    Two hands later, I get T7o in the big blind. Villian on the button calls, Player 3 in the small blind calls, and I click my check button to see the flop...

    ... but instead of a flop, I see all 5 LED's on my cable modem go dark!

    I scrambled for 15 minutes, cussing and throwing things around, trying anything I could to revive the SOB. I pulled out my work laptop, and was moving to different areas of the house, hoping to snag a wireless signal from the neighbor, to no avail. After 15 minutes, I just gave up and decided to just hit the sack.

    This morning, I walk into the office and quickly check my e-mail, certain to see the inevitable "3rd place finish" message, when I see the following:

    pokerstars Tournament #26471175, No Limit Hold'em
    Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
    180 players
    Total Prize Pool: $720.00
    Tournament started - 2006/06/14 - 22:11:17 (ET)

    Dear mdh6424,

    You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
    A $144.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

    So as luck would have it, my mini-rush before the modem meltdown probably earned me a few bucks. Thanks to the donkey who finished third for having no common sense!
  2. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

    Westland, MI
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    Jun 15th, 2006 (6/15/2006 9:21am) in reply to Electric_Eye

    Obviously, you would know if he's a donk or not, but he might not be. You had the chip leader. But, third place with 22K chips, would have to win a pot (if 2nd place kept pushing him in). So, if I'm 2nd place there, I would keep pressure on the third place person, knowing if I can eliminate them, I just have to run through your chips to win the event.
  3. ACMastrPiece ACMastrPiece is offline

    Davis, CA
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    Jun 15th, 2006 (6/15/2006 10:18am) in reply to lordxixor101

    needs: wireless internet card
  4. Zwett Zwett is offline

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    Jun 15th, 2006 (6/15/2006 10:27am) in reply to Electric_Eye

    what do u expect its 4$$$
     
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