I finally won a poker tournament

[Stocks]

I finally won a poker tournament but too bad it was only for $479, I wish it was the sunday million. Either way it's still cool that I can now say I actually won a poker tournament.

It was a $4.40 (2R1A) tournament with around 220 people.

When I got heads up the other guy had a 2 to 1 chip lead $750,000 to my $350,000 and the wierd thing was the last 2 tables I played with this guy and he was pretty aggresive but when we got heads up he became super passive so I kept it small and chiped away at him. The turning point came when he limped or min raised with T6 and I just called with pocket 4's. He floped top pair tens and I floped a set, then he turned trips and we got it all in on the river. After that I was around 650k and 450k and 10 or so hands later I got him allin preflop with QQ vs his A6 and that was it.

The other funny thing was he wanted to split 50/50 when he had the 2-1 chips lead and I was like ok if you want to lol but I did'nt know how to slpit so we never.

[pokeraussie]

Cool man it had to turn around for you. That previous QQ hand was pretty sick.

Fuck splitting it how often are you in a position like this and it's not like we're talking heaps of money either.

[Stocks]

Ya I did'nt really care about the split I was just going along with it because the other guy wanted to.

I was short stacked for the first 3/4 of the tournament because I lost a couple big hands early but it turned around when I had around 12 BB left and the blinds were $200 $400. UTG raised to $829, there was one other called and I was on the BB so I called with J8s. The flop came 578 I pushed allin and the raiser callled he had aces but it came runner runner spades and I hit a flush. A few hands later I got it allin preflop with QQ verses AA and hit a set. So the trick is to get you money in bad and get lucky.

[pokeraussie]

You mean you luckboxed to win a tourney? Who woulda thought. Still though thats a decent sized field to get through it.

[jdwanchalk]

So how many flips did you lose this time.

[ak]

about time someone around here wins a tournament..

congrats!!