So close to big money at Pokerstars final table

By Villa777 on Jul 22, 09 03:31 PM in Cards

MY fingernails are gone after coming tantalisingly close to a huge payday on Sunday.

Entered the Pokerstars weekly £250,000 tournie for $10 and went on my best ever run.

After five hours play I was 18th out of 100 players left and was sitting on a cool 1.25 million chips, from a starting stack of 3,000.

But with the blinds at 40,000 and 80,000, I knew I didn't have too much time to hang in and wait for a monster.

After a couple of rounds of seeing just painful junk cards, I was dealt a pair of sixes while on the button.

With everyone folding to me I raised to 240,000 hoping to see the larger stacked SB and BB fold, but the latter just had to see a flop which came A-5-7.

He checked so I put in an aggressive 300,000 bet, trying to represent the ace - but the dreaded call follow.

Turn came a nothing and I was now prepared to give up the pot to a bet, so was surprised to receive another check.

So surprised in fact, that I pushed all in sensing weakness, like some on-line Phil Hellmuth prodigy.

I was partly right - the kicker for his ace was a weak 4.

With no miracle on the river, I bombed out in a respectable 59th position, picking up $248 for my efforts.

Yet never has banking a pretty decent payday left me feeling so gutted.

I was, perhaps, only a couple of good plays away from making that final table where the money began at $1,379 for ninth and increased rapidly to a whopping $24,813 for first.

Damn it.

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