Biggest MTT comebacks

[tiger7210]

I was down to 4 BB's in last night's $11 Rebuy after my AKs ran into AA's w Blinds at 1500/3000. LAG raises my BB, i put the rest in w T9s. He has AQ and I spike a T on the river. 5 hours later I chop HU for $12K+.

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TheOSU in the $10 rebuy--he was down to having less than the ante

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details!

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It had been a rough two weeks. No moneys in any tournaments - but this hopefully is the beginning of a nice run. Would be a good time to have it, with the Poker Room Grand this weekend.

Now, it's easy for me to say that it's been all bad luck, but that's not true. I've made some horrible decisions during the past two weeks. I don't think it's a stretch to say that until yesterday, at least once a day I had made a move that, IMMEDIATELY upon clicking the action, I said "wtf? that was ridiculous." On some of the occasions I said that AS I did the action. Yesterday in the 45k I had none of those. I don't think I made one poor decision all tournament.

Even the hand that crippled me wasn't a bad decision. This is the last hand at the 10k/20k level, 15k/30k follows. The players on my left seemed quite tight in the time I'd been with them:


*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [3d Kh]
ajmaster333: folds
AppSt2004: folds
AppSt2004 said, "ha"
PLAYAMAN has timed out
PLAYAMAN: folds
PLAYAMAN is sitting out
howSgoing: folds
PLAYAMAN has returned
THEOSU: raises 157768 to 177768 and is all-in
bille2222: calls 165870 and is all-in
abbot: folds
*** FLOP *** [Th Td 5d]
*** TURN *** [Th Td 5d] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Th Td 5d 8c] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bille2222: shows [Qh As] (two pair, Tens and Fives)
THEOSU: shows [3d Kh] (two pair, Tens and Fives - lower kicker)
bille2222 collected 378740 from pot


So there I sat for 5 minutes with 1898 left, blinds 15k/30k with a 1500 ante. I was fortunate to pick up AJ and get protection from QJ - the ace played. I got to 12k. I took a hand off, then "pushed" with TT and won a flip from KJ - moving into the top 27 at the same time, which was a nice accomplishment considering. That got me to 48k. Next hand, UTG+1, I push with K2 of spades. I ran into AJ and AK, but the board made a club flush, and no one had a club. I took 56k. UTG with K9, I put it in again, ran into AQ, and flopped the straight - 168k. Just like that.

I folded my blinds, pushed A8s and AKo in the next orbit, folded my blinds again, then pushed A8, A9 and AA on consecutive hands (showing the AA). I was hoping someone got sick of it, but no luck. I folded the blinds again, pushed AT, when it got back to my big blind. My stack got to 340k by this point, and the guy who limped was an enormous stack...



*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Jh 4h]
DoggerPA: folds
apestyles [observer] said, "haha"
PLAYAMAN: calls 40000
ajmaster333: folds
toofatforyou: folds
AppSt2004: folds
Seanbob1: folds
dicstache: folds
howSgoing: folds
THEOSU said, "you are wise to play cautious"
THEOSU: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8h 6h]
THEOSU: bets 80000
PLAYAMAN: raises 360000 to 440000
THEOSU: calls 223736 and is all-in
PLAYAMAN said, "nooooooo"
DoggerPA said, "omg"
WillyDope [observer] said, "HOLD"
Saratzila [observer] said, "lol"
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*** TURN *** [Qh 8h 6h] [5d]
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "YEAH"
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8h 6h 5d] [Js]
WillyDope [observer] said, "BOOM"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Jh 4h] (a flush, Queen high)
PLAYAMAN: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
PLAYAMAN said, "wow"
THEOSU collected 725472 from pot
DoggerPA said, "nh"
gobboboy [observer] said, "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 725472 Rake 0
Board [Qh 8h 6h 5d Js]


The folks rooting for me are mostly 2+2ers who got wind of my comeback.

That was about as interesting as it got. I won a big coinflip with 88 v. AK to put me over a million, but I used up all my big hands to get there, as I didn't pick up much from there on out. I tried to steal to sustain the stack, but I got more action than I wanted from them, and leaked down to 600k, when I went out.




PokerStars Game #3901354327: Tournament #19224800, Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2006/02/08 - 05:00:10 (ET)
Table '19224800 116' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: oneman69 (936386 in chips)
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (2390422 in chips)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (630724 in chips)
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (2616169 in chips)
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM (470164 in chips)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 (1488276 in chips)
Seat 8: THEOSU (582272 in chips)
Seat 9: howSgoing (1330587 in chips)
oneman69: posts the ante 3000
Seanbob1: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts the ante 3000
PLAYAMAN: posts the ante 3000
TAMPA_SLIM: posts the ante 3000
bizzyb32: posts the ante 3000
THEOSU: posts the ante 3000
howSgoing: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts small blind 30000
PLAYAMAN: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Ah Tc]
TAMPA_SLIM: folds
bizzyb32: folds
THEOSU: raises 519272 to 579272 and is all-in
howSgoing: folds
oneman69: raises 354114 to 933386 and is all-in
Seanbob1: folds
BIGFELLA44: folds
PLAYAMAN: folds
*** FLOP *** [3h Jh 8h]
*** TURN *** [3h Jh 8h] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [3h Jh 8h 9c] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Ah Tc] (high card Ace)
oneman69: shows [7h 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
oneman69 collected 1272544 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1272544 Rake 0
Board [3h Jh 8h 9c Kc]
Seat 2: oneman69 showed [7h 7d] and won (1272544) with a pair of Sevens
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: THEOSU showed [Ah Tc] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: howSgoing folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Apparently, I was the talisman, because the player that busted me won.

Hell of a ride it was.

[fazool]

Stars $100 MTT, was down to 314 chips with blinds 100/200 and 25 ante, came back to win it all.

[El Diablo]

All,

WHAT THE F?

There was this kid, SCHNEIDERS.....

[gotribe28]

Stars $4.00 180 seat SnG tonight. Was SS at 4,000 on FT. Came back in two hands to over 50k and ended up winning outright. It was my first FT and my first win on a big tourney... My BR grew by 100X I am still in shock...WooHoo

[BigPoppa]

I was down to T300 or so with the blinds at 50/100 and came back to finish 2nd in a 626 person $20+2 on Stars.

[apefish]

I had that table open and saw that whole thing unfold. It was as crazy to watch as I am sure it was to actually play.


I busted out sixth in a small(for most of you [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) event over at Tribeca, a 3K guarantee. I stick around to watch it play out. When it gets heads up the chip leader has about a 17 to 1 chip lead. Having played with him a few times I wonder if that is enough. As it turns out it isnt. With the short stack having just over 2 blinds the leader open folds his small blind. Now the shorty moves in next hand and the chip leader types something ridiculous like "T8 gh" and folds getting better than 2-1 to possibly end the game.
It still is a massive lead though, until the big stack decides to push A2 two hands later and gets called by A9. Game on. The chip leader goes into calling mode apparently now trying to just end it. And shortly afterwards it ends- with the heads up shorty winning.
The most amazing thing wasnt the comeback size. It was the fact the leader may not have played a single hand correctly once they got heads up. And the entire comeback only took about 10 minutes total.

Stud8 tourney at Stars. Lost a huge pot last hand before the break and had 12 chips left (15 ante). Came back to get 3rd.

[Body Man D]

I was in a Stars $20/180 about an hour in with @2000 chips. I unexpectedly had to leave to pick up my son. When I returned I was down to about 400 chips and in 80th place out of 80 left. My first hand sitting down I was on the big blind which was about half my chips with j,k. Called all in and tripled up with a straight. The very next hand got A,A and double up again to get to about average chip stack. Was chip leader with 5 left and got sucked out on and finished 5th.