The WWdN, also known to mankind as gotta love it, gotta hate it. Same ol’ same ol’ at the WWdN front. I do fairly well until we’re down to the last two tables and then I can’t catch anything and/or can’t seem to hit anything. As soon as my stack is down to a low, I get a hand, but my stack doesn’t scare anyone off anymore, so my hand get’s cracked by bs hands (this time it was AQo vs 109o)…out in 17th of 72…either I need to catch a break or present a gift to the poker gods – although I’m fairly sure that they’re mad at me for sucking out on the hammer. Yes you read that right, I sucked out on the hammer! I confess – no wonder that I didn’t finish ITM, I sucked out on the hammer in a tourney which is featuring 72 players. A coincidence? You be the judge 😉
Hand of the night – the already mentioned hammer (re)suck:

PokerStars Game #5245759333: Tournament #26043435, $10+$1 Hold’em
No Limit – Level II (15/30) – 2006/06/13 – 20:59:54 (ET)
Table ‘26043435 1’ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Scaffidi (2935 in chips)
Seat 2: shadowtwin (1340 in chips)
Seat 3: Jaxia (1055 in chips)
Seat 4: hoyazo (2630 in chips)
Seat 5: mean g (645 in chips)
Seat 6: S.t.B (2325 in chips)
Seat 7: Ingoal (1555 in chips)
Seat 9: Grrr.Argghh. (1390 in chips)
Grrr.Argghh.: posts small blind 15
Scaffidi: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ingoal [Kc As]
shadowtwin: folds
Jaxia: folds
hoyazo: folds
mean g: folds
S.t.B: raises 90 to 120
Ingoal: raises 240 to 360
Grrr.Argghh.: folds
Scaffidi: folds
S.t.B: calls 240
*** FLOP *** [7s Ks 7c]
S.t.B: checks
Ingoal: bets 360
S.t.B: raises 630 to 990
Ingoal said, “hammer?”
Ingoal: raises 205 to 1195 and is all-in
S.t.B: calls 205
S.t.B said, “For you Hoy… Hammer”
*** TURN *** [7s Ks 7c] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [7s Ks 7c Ts] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
S.t.B: shows [2s 7h] (a full house, Sevens full of Kings)
Ingoal: shows [Kc As] (a full house, Kings full of Sevens)
hoyazo said, “WOW”
mean g said, “wow”
Ingoal collected 3155 from pot
hoyazo said, “that aint right”
Ingoal said, “yes!!!!!!!!”
S.t.B said, “just wrong!”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3155 | Rake 0
Board [7s Ks 7c Ts Kd]
Seat 1: Scaffidi (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: shadowtwin folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Jaxia folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: hoyazo folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: mean g folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: S.t.B showed [2s 7h] and lost with a full house, Sevens full of Kings
Seat 7: Ingoal (button) showed [Kc As] and won (3155) with a full house, Kings full of Sevens
Seat 9: Grrr.Argghh. (small blind) folded before Flop

Well, so I was way ahead preflop, way behind on the flop and then I sucked out. Basically a loose/bad call on the flop, after all I suspected that S.t.B was on a semi-bluff-steal (if a steal attempt with the hammer can even be considered a semi-bluff) as you can see in the hand history above, but tbh I can’t really suspect a hammer behind every bush…although this is the WWdN, so I guess you could…but more often than not, it’s not the hammer…anyway…I won that nice pot, but in the end the poker gods punished me for it ( 😉 )…

Alrighty…I’m out of here…already missed the first half of the NBA Finals game 3…gooo Dirk! Goooo Mavs! Get this one tonight and I’m getting my broom ready 🙂