Da Mookie and Da Daily Double

Last night I made a point of only playing three tourneys. I was set on playing the FTP Daily Double and if I saw that I had the bandwidth for it I was going to sing up for the Mookie as well (which starts an hour later).

So how do I start off my DD last night? I run my nuts flush into a boat on the seventh hand to get down to 30 chips from the starting 2000. Incredible!



We both checked the flop and he check called my pot sized bet on the turn and my push on the river. I am such a sucker.

So then came one of the biggest comebacks I have seen (honestly). Obviously I need to find a place to push as the BB is 30 and I have no other chooice. But the hands I get are 23o, 64o, J4o, and 93o and now I am in the BB with Kh3c and I managed to pull off a miracle heart flush When the button called and made a straight - sick! So now after I lay down the SB I have two BB left in my stack and need to find a place to push again. I am on the button with AJs and the pot gets raised and called by 5 players. After an all club flop (I hold diamonds) the raiser bets out 1/5 of the pot and everyone folds. He shows AJo with the Jc and we chop. I am now up to 195. Few hands later I push again with A7s and get called by KQs to more than double up again and now have 435. Now in the BB I see A3s and once again we are 5 to the flop which is A-10-2 with two spades (my suit). I check raise and more than double up again when he calls with K-10. 990 in chips, from my low of 30.

At this point I have to go tend to KajaWife who is not feeling well and needs my help. I miss a couple of orbits but really didn't get anything playable anyway. I then chip back up with AQo in the SB against a weak player and I am back up to 1145. A few hands later I get JJ on the CO+1 and when I see a small raise and a call in front I push again. I get them both to call with AsQs and KhTh. AQ is a slight favorite and hits his Q on the flop. But then a K on the turn and a T on the river and the underdog takes it down with two pair and my stellar comeback is over:



I am still in the other game and doing quite well. I eventually make it deep and go out in 25th place out of almost 800 players when my 77 meets a KJ that hits a K on the turn:



Two things I learned:
1) I shouldn't have pushed those Jacks. A call would have kept me alive with a decent stack. Still a low M, but I could have gotten away from that hand. At the point where I shoved everyone at the table had seen me shove a few times, so I was going to get called and I did.
2) I should have folded those 7s. No need to risk my tournament with middle pair. It was a race and I lost. If I win that one I am table chip leader. People were getting desperate at this point and I should avoid these races.

I will be playing these Daily Doubles again. For sure.

So after I busted in the first one I had enough bandwidth to play the Mookie. It's always a challenge to play against these aggressive bloggers and since I haven't played much with them I am still learning what they do. Maudie was pushing me around. Hard.
I made a total donkey call against Waffles and sucked out a 2 outer on the river. Maudie raised in early position (she said she folded 10s later). I re-raised 3xMaudie's raise and Waffles pushed all-in from late position. Maudie thought about it and folded. I had a sneaking suspicion that he had Aces and was trying to isolate, or was he??? I couldn't make up my mind and figured FTP will not do this to me twice by giving me QQ and someone else AA. But they sure did and when I called and saw his rockets I figured I was done until I remembered it's Waffles and I hit my 2 outer on the river. Sorry Waffles. I really thought you were bluffing. Or was I?