The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly......

Let's start with a good hand from tonight's play.....

PokerStars Game #9005066723: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2007/03/20 - 20:08:15 (ET)Table 'Matra II' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: King Acehole ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 2: cantseefade ($40.75 in chips)
Seat 3: VETDRIVER ($154.90 in chips)
Seat 4: btown16 ($50 in chips)
Seat 5: MadtownMoney ($63.45 in chips)
Seat 6: mike2379 ($48 in chips)
MadtownMoney: posts small blind $0.25mike2379: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to cantseefade [Qd Qs Ks Ac]
King Acehole: folds
cantseefade: raises $1 to $1.50
VETDRIVER: calls $1.50
btown16: folds
MadtownMoney: calls $1.25
mike2379: folds
*** FLOP *** [Js As Ts]
MadtownMoney: checks
cantseefade: bets $1
VETDRIVER: calls $1
MadtownMoney: folds
*** TURN *** [Js As Ts] [Ad]
cantseefade: bets $5
VETDRIVER: calls $5
*** RIVER *** [Js As Ts Ad] [4c]
cantseefade: bets $16.20V
ETDRIVER: raises $16.20 to $32.40
cantseefade: raises $0.85 to $33.25 and is all-in
VETDRIVER: calls $0.85
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cantseefade: shows [Qd Qs Ks Ac] (a Royal Flush)
VETDRIVER: mucks hand
cantseefade collected $80.50 from pot

Nice little hand huh..... now lets see how I can go from chip leader in a 180 person tourney with 79 left to going out in 78th place all in the space of two hands......

PokerStars Game #9007880171: Tournament #45788643, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2007/03/20 - 22:53:14 (ET)Table '45788643 17' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: monsoon654 (2655 in chips)
Seat 2: kw31 (5597 in chips)
Seat 3: michaelz6 (4273 in chips)
Seat 4: ecu1984 (4360 in chips)
Seat 5: 2pac4sure (1345 in chips)
Seat 6: All Donk (795 in chips)
Seat 7: cantseefade (9565 in chips)
Seat 8: Pavy94 (945 in chips)
2pac4sure: posts small blind 75All Donk: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to cantseefade [Js Ac]
cantseefade: raises 300 to 450
Pavy94: folds
monsoon654: folds
kw31: folds
michaelz6: raises 600 to 1050
ecu1984: folds
2pac4sure: folds
All Donk: folds
cantseefade: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [5s 7d Ah]
cantseefade: bets 900
michaelz6: raises 1200 to 2100
cantseefade: raises 1950 to 4050
cantseefade said, "QQ no good"
michaelz6: calls 1123 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5s 7d Ah] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [5s 7d Ah Qh] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***cantseefade: shows [Js Ac] (a pair of Aces)
michaelz6: shows [Qs Qd] (three of a kind, Queens)
michaelz6 collected 8771 from pot

I figured he had JJ-KK based on his reraise of me and was trying to induce a call with my betting pattern and little barb in which I accurately called out his hand. Here is the following hand in which my nemesis eliminates me....

PokerStars Game #9007906487: Tournament #45788643, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2007/03/20 - 22:54:45 (ET)Table '45788643 17' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: monsoon654 (2655 in chips)
Seat 2: kw31 (5597 in chips)
Seat 3: michaelz6 (8771 in chips)
Seat 4: ecu1984 (4360 in chips)
Seat 5: 2pac4sure (1270 in chips)
Seat 6: All Donk (645 in chips)
Seat 7: cantseefade (5292 in chips)
Seat 8: Pavy94 (945 in chips)
All Donk: posts small blind 75cantseefade: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to cantseefade [Ad Ac]
cantseefade said, "well it wasn't at the time"
Pavy94: folds
monsoon654: folds
kw31: folds
michaelz6: raises 150 to 300
ecu1984: folds
2pac4sure: folds
All Donk: folds
cantseefade: raises 750 to 1050
michaelz6: calls 750
*** FLOP *** [3h Qc 7s]
cantseefade: bets 450
michaelz6: calls 450
*** TURN *** [3h Qc 7s] [9h]
cantseefade: bets 750
michaelz6: raises 750 to 1500
cantseefade: raises 2292 to 3792 and is all-in
michaelz6: calls 2292
*** RIVER *** [3h Qc 7s 9h] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***cantseefade: shows [Ad Ac] (a pair of Aces)
michaelz6: shows [Qd 9d] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
michaelz6 collected 10659 from pot

In hindsight.... I'd play them shits the same way.