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[TheHaversham]

Real donk move to shove on such a flop with pair of TT and 4 as kicker lol It seems his stack was big enough,too so I don't really get his play. Anyway congrats on the money!

BTW, what game did you play? Was it MTT? What was the buy-in?

To be fair, we had been battling. I can be fairly relentless when we get down to four or less, so I am pummeling with a raise on almost every hand, c-betting very consistently, re-raising, etc. When we got to heads-up, I had almost a million chips to his 125k, so he was going to need to make something happen very quickly. He's a good player (not the best at the FT, however), but flatting me there with T4 just shows how fed up he had gotten. It's one thing to raise my T5o (I like to say, "but it makes SO many straights, and SO many flushes, lol), but another altogether to flat with a hand like that. He raises pre-flop, he wins most times and the hand is over. He folds, and I win one (more) blind and the hand is over. But he turns it into like a trap, and gets caught when the flop hits me over the head.

This was a $5 buy-in (but I re-entered several times), $750k Guarantee, with deep stacks (started @ 5k, 15-min blind levels), MTT.

The true stallions at the table (besides me, of course) were R0ckstarR0ssi and AAAAALLIN...both sharks of the most-dangerous kind. AAAAALLIN has over $120k in profit across 15k games on Merge, with a 38% ROI and an ABI at $21. He played uber-tight and hyper-aggressive, but he was short-stacked for almost the duration of the final table. R0ckstarR0ssi attended the same online poker camp that I did (altho not at the same time), and we both played backed by big money before Black Friday. He is much, much looser, almost impossible to read, and unpredictable yet solid. We have similar styles, but I'm not sure he recognized me right away, which gave me an advantage, and therefore a massive chip lead, before he could react.

At one point I was at $500k with 4-5 others at around $125k, but I doubled a couple players and had to beat them back down without relent. This final play wasn't really significant, nor donkish given the way the table played, just funny that we played for almost 7 hours only to get it all-in with T5 vs T4. I suppose that's why/how Doyle won b2b WSOP's with T2o, lol.