Golden

I played for 7 hrs on cash earlier at 2,4$NL and went down 300$ before going up 300$ and finally finishing level. This was only 9pm, very unusual for me to play so much earlier in the day. I think i ran bad but i made a few bad calls or plays so it really was a frustrating mixed bag. Anyway unsure of whether to enter a 10pm $109 (23 players) after a break i did so at the last few seconds and after the first hand below i just hit almost everything. Luckiest tournament game ive had for ages. Key hands were:


1) blinds of 20,40 it folds round to me in the sb and i have KK and raise it to 120. he calls and flop is 999 and chk chk. turn is a 10 and i lead for 120 which is flat called, river is a 6 and i bet 240 which is raised a further 600. I stubbornly dont listen to my note on this guy which says he doesnt bluff and pay him off at the last second to see the 89std. Im left on about 1000 crippled but still in with a chance if im lucky, obviously i made an awful call by my standards on the river and i was mad at myself for doing so. By all means i should have bust if i or he had played it faster.

2) after a fair bit of pushing to sustain around to 800-1100 mark i move allin with JJ at 100,200 and double against a chap flat calling 200 with A8off LOL.

3) i then push all in early with 88 and get called by 99 and river a straight, my push was a big overbet of 2400 at 100,200 but they were lucky imo i didnt hold better than 99.

4) i then bust someone A10 vs 99 for another 2500 pot.

5) im now almost chip leader pick up AA in the sb and reraise an utg raiser. he pushes allin same stack as me with KQstd !!!, im now chip leader by a mile double 2nd place.

6) a 2500 stack moves all in and i call with AQ and beat his 1010.

6) i think the only pot i lost was then a 99 vs 1010 for 5000 chips before we hit the final table of 9.

7) i sat tight at first as i had lost a bit of my advantage then we hit the money with 5 players left and i went golden again, first raising with KK (only 400bb which it was until the end) to 1200 only to get reraised allin by 10s for a 20k pot.

8) i took a chunk of the weak stack in a blind battle freeflop with mid pair before he busted to someone next hand. Then 3 handed 46k in play and only 400bb after maybe 10 hands this one comes about: sb tops up i have 8c4c and flop is AxQcJc and he bets 700 which i call. turn is Kc and he bets 1200 which i push allin on. he calls (playing an 8k stack) and is drawing dead with 10s3s, lovely golden turn !!!

9) heads up (35k vs 11k) after about 5 hands it comes flop on my bb of A53 and holding 52off i bet 500 which is called. turn is a sweet 4 (very golden) and i check. he bets 1600 and i push him all in as there is possiblity of a higher straight river, a flush draw or a paired hand also. he calls with 43 (2 pair) and misses the river.

1st was $1288, LOL for a game that seemed against me most of the day and that stupid KK call ill take that. its nice to be lucky in a tournament for a change but i did play my big hands well to get paid off fully even if i was golden on soooooooo many hands.