grats man!

Congratulations.....

And so I log onto Stars, and see this.... FRONT PAGE!

Your A3 vs AQ with 10 left for all your chips... My prediction early was pretty close... Good Job!

Just saw the Stars front page and came here - nice result, good job!

Even better, great tournament report, v interesting indeed.

You're definitely much more aggressive pre-flop than I am ... hands like 485 (small reraise to put 1/3 stack in with 98) and especially 419 (x3 reraise put 40% of stack in w Q5) boggle my mind somewhat.

(And I'm not completely sold.... perhaps you just need better tournament reads/timing than I have)

Anyway, so ... 25/50 it is then?!

ps Lol at your sister disconnecting you

i just try to trust my reads as best as possible in tournies. when i think someones weak, i try to play back and them and force them off the hand. When you're not geting dealt a lot of great cards, you need to find ways to pick up chips. One of the best ways is to pick off steals - you get both the blinds, plus (Generally) 3x the BB from the raiser. When i notice someone raising a lot, i stop giving them credit for a hand when the bump it up, and at that point i just have to pay attention and search for a time when i've got a good spot on the table and make a play at them.

Anyways, no. i'm not moving up in limits. I've had the roll for 10/20 for a while now, but i'm still playing 1/2 and 2/4. it's where i feel comfortable and have the most success (thought the summer in general has been kinda gross for me at them).

Plus i'll be spending 20-30 grand of it on a car - something i've been planning to do for over a year now but just haven't out of concern for overspending my bank roll.

Great recap Stelvask. I was chating it up with Roy and Hard2tel the whole time and it's interesting to actually get to see the cards behind the hands so to speak. That K10 hand (#457) we were all trying to figure out what in the world you had that you'd eventually fold with those odds. And when you disconnected I about fell out of my chair! Anyway, great show man. You pretty much killed my Monday productivity though...not that I ever get much done on a Monday anway.

thanks dude, i appreciate it. i'm looking forward to reading your tourney report when you get win.