I did not have to work on New Year's Eve so naturally I headed to the Crazy Moose for some 2-20 spread action. I had a great time and basically broke even, but stayed way too late (for me) and did not get home until after 2:00 a.m. Yawn! I was all wound up from having fun and probably didn't get to sleep until after 3:00 a.m. Yawn again!
For some reason, I woke up at about 8:00 a.m. and could not really get back to sleep. At some point I realized that it was Friday and there was a 10:00 a.m. tournament at the Moose. I spent about 30 minutes trying to talk myself out of it because I was REALLY tired, but naturally I went anyway. I did not arrive until almost tournament time and Roland informed me that I would be NINTH alternate. Yuck to the max. I absolutely HATE being an alternate because one is so short stacked to begin with in these stupid 10-minute blind round tournaments and then there is posting involved and it's just nuts. However, I was already there and I was already awake. Once I'm awake I don't go back to sleep unless I'm sick or something, so I decided to stay.
There ended up being 13 alternates. They froze the blinds at 100-200. I did not get into the tournament until almost 11:00 a.m. Luckily, I was seated one behind the button when I did finally get to a table. However, I had to post 300 and was left with 1700 chips or only 8.5 big blinds. Icky poo.
I won the tournament. I still find this to be totally amazing and I'm not at all sure how it happened. I know I survived no less than 4 all-ins before the final table. I scratched and clawed and bluffed my way up to about 6000 chips and then I gave half of that back when an all-in player's pocket 4s held up against my AK hearts. I ended up being the shortest stack at the final table, but hey! I made it to the final table. I simply went on the luckiest streak of all time and took down the whole thing for $510!! Not too bad for a $25 buy-in.
I told Roland I would never bitch about being an alternate again. LOL. However, I still intend to do my utmost best not to be one. I hope everyone out there is having as good a start to their new year as I am! See you soon!
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Great job Lynne! I agree with you that being an alternate is sucky big time. The blinds are way too big by the time you are seated and you just have to play that much faster to survive.
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