a chip and a chair

i’ve heard that saying a lot, but i’ve never really believed in it. that is until now.

i don’t know if there’s something different here in guam (i flew here just this morning to visit my parents) but it seems like everything is working for me in the virtual felt. i’ve played 5 SNGs so far. three 9-player $1 + 0.20 SNG and two 27-player $1 + 0.20 SNG. i managed to place 4th in one 9-player SNG, 2nd in one 27-player SNG and 1st in all the rest. but that’s not the best part. the best part was finishing first in the 27-player SNG when i was, at one point, down to 90 in chips while one player had around 2K and the other two had more than 10k in chips.

that was not a typo. i will say it again, 90 in chips when the blinds were 300-600 with an ante of 50. and i finished first. un-fucking-real.

i really had no idea what happened. it was all a blur. but at one point (when i was making my comeback), i was all in with A-10 off versus pocket queens and pocket aces. the flop was a J-Q-6  – and i was 98% sure that i was done for. but the turn came a 10 and the river a king. maybe the poker gods were smiling on me.

a couple of hands before that, i was the chip leader when i mixed it up with the one second in chips. he raised preflop and i called with the intention of taking away the pot in the flop. I had K-6 off and the flop came Q-7-3 rainbow. i lead out with 1200 and he popped it to 3600.  i don’t know what it was but i knew that he didn’t hit the flop and he was on a resteal. trusting my instincts, i repopped it to 7,200 – leaving me with only a little less than 3k in chips. he thought about it and thought about it and finally pushed all in. big pot. but i’m absolutely positive that he only had ace high. i could not call though, even though i know he had nothing, his nothing still beats my nothing so i fold my hand. maybe it was this hand that gained me the favor of the poker gods. i’m not really a superstitious guy but after making that comeback, i wonder if there really are poker gods out there, smiling on the aggressive players.

i posted the hand history starting from hand 132. the miracle straight happened in hand 146.

my bankroll is now up to $66.61. i can now play in the $3+0.40 SNGs. but i might stick it out in the $1+0.20 SNGs until i complete my block. this promising starts just gave me a good chance to make it to the SNG leaderboards.

i also installed the 60 day trial version of poker tracker, but i can’t seem to make it work. my wins aren’t being registered in the software and not all of the hands are being imported. can anyone help me on this?

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