Another great weekend!

This weekend I played in the noon tourney at Venetian - great structure - 7500 in chips, 30 min levels - $150 buy-in. I made one bad decision - laying down JJ on a 10-high board when I got re-raised all in and the guy showed 22. I should have thought it over, it was a loose-aggressive guy and I should have shoved all my chips in then. But we were down to 27 people out of 83, and I didn't want to go out. I went out next hand when I pushed with a flush draw and got called by two pair. Flush never came and I was out. Oh well. My own darn fault!

ANYWAY - so I played the 7pm tourney at TI last night. Only sixteen players, I'm the only women amongst a sea full of annoying arrogant bunch of men. I let them get to me, and when we got to the final table, I was EXTREMELY short stack with only 3 BB left. They were kind of ignoring me - just waiting for me to bust out - and pride made me determined NOT to be the first one out at the final table.

I folded folded folded, picked my spots and got a little chips. Stayed short-stack until 5 left - payout is till three. Now I'm determined to make the money. Again, folded folded folded, pushing with the right hands in the right situation and got a little more chips. HUGE chip leader was super-aggressive and he doubled me up a couple of times.

FINALLY down to four, and me and other guy took turns being short-stack. Finally his ego got the better of him and he couldn't stand being pushed around by big stack, he snapped and got knocked out! GREAT, in the money!

So then I'm in the SM, big stack on BB, third guy on button raised. I looked down at AA - GREAT. I called, BB folded. Flop came QJx, I checked. Button raised, I pushed, and he insta-called with AQ. Hee-haw, then HE was short stack.

Couple of hands later I have J10 - flop is 9-10-J. Big stack pushed, I decided he doesn't have KQ, a push would be stupid then, so I called. He had QQ, turn is another J and now I am chip leader!!!

Third guy went out a couple of hands later, and heads up I had a 3-1 chip lead.
I had Q9s on a Q-high, two spades board, he pushed with AJ, I called, no spade, he got an Ace on the river, and now we're pretty much even stacked.
Couple hands later I had A-10 on a 10-high board, he pushed I called. He showed J-10 - GREAT. Then the dreaded J on the turn and I was knocked out in second place.

I got unlucky not to have won it, but I had a comeback from hell!!! Was doing pretty well in the NL games after an initial bad start, and I had another profitable weekend!!

ps. also won my FIRST football bet thanks to the LIONS!!!