Don't Ever Give Up

I felt like I was freerolling after that, which was good because I ended up losing a flip shortly after dinner break and busted. Then I ran A♠ A♦ into 4♠ 4♦ on a J♦ 5♣ 4♥ flop shortly before dinner break to go broke in the $5k event.

After a lot of long days of live poker, I was ready for a day of hanging out at home grinding Sunday donkaments.
Eight hours in after I'd bricked my first twenty or so tournaments for the day without a single cash, I was left with just three tables. I wasn't in the money in any of them, and didn't have any big stacks cheat poker.

Although there was definitely a part of me that wanted to just get it over with and bust my last few tournaments so I could have a Long Island fruit punch, burn one, and play some Mario Kart, the grinder in me just couldn't let that happen.
I work too hard at what I do to blow it off, and at the end of the year every score helps.

Since I stayed focused and didn't give up, I ended up cashing in all three tournaments and making the final table of the Tilt $100 cubed (one rebuy, one add-on) short-handed. I overcame a huge chip defecit three-handed and eventually got heads up with a total sicko, Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick.

After a match that probably lasted more than 100 hands, Stevie got the best of me in two key pots. After he called a three-bet in position and completely floated me on the flop, he backdoored a flush against my measly unimproved flopped trip aces marked poker.

I grinded back from a 5:1 chip lead with few showdowns other than winning one flip until we were traiding the chip lead back and forth. On the final hand of the tournament Stevie had me covered by ~280k of the ~1.5 million in play, and 4-bet jammed with Jd-4d against my 7h-7c.

Since it was the final hand I don't need to tell you who won...but I can tell you that the board was completely clean for me through fourth street...

Anyway, the next WSOP event that I've really been looking forward to is coming up tomorrow (by tomorrow I mean in 8.5 hr since it's currently 3:30am)...the $2,500 NL six-handed. Wish me luck!

--Matt Stout
All In At 420