Last 2010 Tournament

Oh, just remembered. It was pretty funny...

Dec 31st decided to play in one tourney only. That was $8500 GTD w Rebuys. Long story short, made to final 3. Chip leader had around 145K, 2nd in chips guy had around 45K and I just lost good junk of chips and sat there with 15K. I think blinds were 600-1200. Pretty bad shape :)

Genius idea hit my genius head. I offered a 3-way chop. Of course guys started laughing and I wasn't too mad about them making fun of my stack.

I said, "Ok, it's your own fault, now I will have to win the tourney". Series of smiley faces came from both opponents.

Couple hands later, got AA and doubled up on the big stack. And the fun game began. I think we played like half an hour back and forth, simply exchanging chips. In mean time Won one all in flip preflop with being 60-40 underdog to stay alive... Both opponent played really good poker and it took forever to bust somebody.

Finally got rid of the third one. The initial chip leader. Don't remember the chip count HU, but I know I had 2 to 1 chips in play. Unfortunately doubled him up w 88 vs JJ preflop and tables were switched... He had more chips than me already. We talked for couple minutes about chopping, but he decided not to chop, since it looked really promising for him to win.
Big mistake. 10 minutes into the game it was over. And guess who won...

Lesson learned- don't count anybody out with chip and a chair. If the guy is not out, he still has a chance to win it all. Lucky me, I was on the winning side here...