Target Acquisition: Tournaments

I've learned to just trust my reads and be prepared to go all the way with them. If I'm wrong then I can analyze the heck out of myself later, but if you second guess yourself with 10 seconds to act and $1800 on the line with one click you're just going to hate yourself later.

This was one of those moments. I thought I could pwn this guy with any two cards. I really thought I was gone when I put him all in on the river, but my initial read amazingly turned out to be right. I really shouldn't have shown my beautiful 7 2 of spades afterwards, but I couldn't resist.

#352633408: Satellite to WC Tuesday (2181257), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:57:56 ET - 2005/12/25
Seat 1: RoCo (1,485)
Seat 2: frankwu (2,325)
Seat 3: TNT MAN (1,770)
Seat 5: golfn27 (1,715)
Seat 7: renroh123 (1,915)
Seat 8: Virge (2,665)
Seat 9: troyteague (7,000)
troyteague posts the small blind of 25
RoCo posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Virge [7s 2s] [Monster hand]
frankwu folds
TNT MAN calls 50 [bingo]
golfn27 folds
renroh123 folds
Virge raises to 100
troyteague folds
RoCo calls 50
TNT MAN calls 50
*** FLOP *** [8c Kd Ad] [ain't that a beauty?]
RoCo checks
TNT MAN checks
Virge bets 200
RoCo foldsTNT MAN calls 200
*** TURN *** [8c Kd Ad] [9d] [heck yes, I have the flush now, and it's bigger than his flush I bet]
TNT MAN checks
Virge bets 500
TNT MAN calls 500
*** RIVER *** [8c Kd Ad 9d] [4c]
TNT MAN checks
Virge has 15 seconds left to act
Virge bets 1,350 [at this point I thought I was on my way out of the tournament]
TNT MAN folds [good lay down]
Uncalled bet of 1,350 returned to Virge
Virge shows [7s 2s] (Ace King high) [this was really, really unnecessary]
Virge wins the pot (1,725)