12 days in Taipei (Part 3)

I had 3 big name pros on my immediate left, and a couple of high performing regs on my right. If I were to guess, the whole table probably had 40 trophies between them. I look down at ATdd with 12bb left, still 4 from ITM and I am playing with no fear, I pushed, only to be snap rejam by buddy world class pro on my left (insider joke) who woke up with JJ. Flop brick, turn brick, river A. Sorry mate! :p

Soon after I get AQs on the button. Utg chip leader leads, I just flat, buddy world class pro jams his remaining stack, utg just limp (I think it was his mistake), I 4b and made him fold. A7dd vs AQss. He said I should let him win this one and I actually felt bad and meant it when I said I hope he would win this hand. But alas for him, AQ held.

Soon after shortest stack jammed with QTss, I wake up with AAsh, and flop was KJxss. I am like, here we go again! Turn 6s river 5s. Finally I am running good at the right time! Flopped set twice, second time I lost to a higher set but somehow I could have gotten away I feel. The bubble took a while to burst but finally we were down to 5. I opened UTG with A3hh and button jams 6bbs. 4bbs to call, I knew I wasn't in good shape. I eventually called vs AJ but spiked a 3 to knockout another multiple trophy winner. Sorry bro!

Two days before this event, I remembered clearly I had a dream where I won a big pot with 77 and shipped a tournament. When I woke up I could still remember it clearly. But I didn't tell anyone because it felt silly and I just thought it was a dream. I just won a decent pot and with 4.1million chips in play, I had 1.2million. Under the gun I had 77! The blinds were pretty high and two stacks with about 11bb each. 4 handed I just open jammed. Biggest stack covered me by a little snap calls. I was like, oh, this doesn't feel like the dream. He flips over AK. I spike a 7 on the turn and doubled up to 2.5m.

Thanks to the nice dealer who helped me stack this up. I also won a pass to the December event.

With the blinds rising fast, and the tournament quickly becoming a shove fest, we proposed a 4-way chop and with 100k left for the eventual winner. I had about half the chips and was guaranteed a better than 2nd place money so I took it. Soon I knocked out one, and then another (in a very lucky fashion) I jammed A4cc into A8ss. Flop was 862 one spade. Turn 5s. River 3c. 6 outs to knock him out. Granted even if I had lost I still had a monster stack and he would double to 8bb. During heads up I had 3.7 million vs 400k in chips. First hand he had to commit 200k blind. I looked down at A9o and he called with KJdd. Blank all the way until ace on the river.

Who wants to buy Taiwan dollars?

When all the dust settled, I counted my winnings and buy ins and make a decent profit. I remembered the profit goal I set and it exceeded it slightly! So I changed my flights and am now on the way to the next tournament in Korea! Let's pray the run good continues and the dream lives on!