Finally I have something to blog about, and the definition of squinty rockets

I just took down the WWdN. Yup, Blinders is king of the blogosphere (for a day at least). It was an extremely rare (for me), near wire to wire dominating performance. In a very rare WWdN appearance for me. I thinks it was just my 2nd time in the WWdN. I have played the MATH once, and don't think I have ever played the mook. I try to turn out for the DADI and the bigger events whenever possible, and of course the Big Game.

I drew Iak's left, and said "nice, free money on my right". For some reason, we were discussing A4. I have always considered this hand close to AA. It looks almost the same and has the nickname "two pointies". I said that if you squint your eyes enough it looks like AA. Squinty Rockets. I would get squinty rockets and KK in a 5 out of 8 hand stretch early. Playing them all like AA or KK, and getting played back with TPTK to my overpair (this time) for a double up on the third consecutive hand. I was practically running the table. Straight to the top of the leader board where I would be more or less the whole time.

I had the lead at the 1st break, and was close near the 2nd. I eliminated 10th place, and retook the lead going to the final table. Spock was playing aggressive, and I feared him the most. My stack allowed me to remain aggressive, but I was pretty card dead at the final table. When we were down to about 5 handed, I had raised about 3 hands in a row and then picked up 88. I raised again, and this time Spock reraised. I was pretty sure it was overs, because he was fed up. I had the pot odds easy, and figured that if I won, I would be able to win the whole thing. It would have crippled the player I feared the most, and and gave me a huge chip lead if I won the hand. I also thought I might be able to push him off weaker overs.

So I pushed. He called with AK, and my 88 held. Set in fact. From that point on it was pretty much over. I picked my spots, and knocked out most of everyone else. Heads up was like 43k to 6k in chips when it started. The heads up battle took a while, but never really went anywhere until the final hand when I had KJ vs QJ. Yeah me!