Who needs the SundayStorm?
The missus decided to go for her afternoon nap at about 4.30pm so I decided to start up the old laptop earlier than usual. PokerStars "Bigger $8.80" with a $32K guarantee starts at 3.30pm but with 120 minutes of late registrations I chose to give it a go.....
I managed to double up my 3K starting chips quite quickly to put me on an average stack and in the thick of the game.
A couple of times I went on a run of hands, AK, AK, QQ was one lot. My raise was called for two out of these three hands and both times I hit and eliminated both players. The second run was 77, 77, KK and again chips were profited!
When the original field of 11,479 players was down to about 300 my BB was raised by the button so I shoved all my chips with QQ. The button instantly called with 10 10. I was relieved to see a Q appear on the turn!
This put me up to 12th in chips....
By the time 235 remained I had dropped to 18th.
I then played a hand really badly trying to scare a shortstack who, unfortunately, had AA!
This, and a few losses of blinds dropped me to 74/178.
A few more blinds later I am dealt AA. An aggressive large stack makes a 2.5x raise, I flat call and hopefully let him dig his own grave! Sure enough, he shoves all-in on a 10 9 2 flop. I call, he shows 10 9! I was releaved to see the river produce an A. This got me to 51/118.
Missing a flushdraw cost me a lot of chips and left me in virtually a "chip and a chair" situation, but I managed to win a few chips back on the very next hand shoving my floped middle pair and not getting called! Was now 81/100 and in need of a double up.
With 12bb left I shoved with 88 and was called by KK. No help came!
Finished 76/11479 for $128 (1st place paid $10,497)
