Woohooo! Im over the moon after my incredibly long session at the final table. The end was very messy and fast (lotto) action and it got me very tired now. I ended up finishing 3rd. I would love to tell you all the specified story tomorrow, but I wanted to jump for joy here now before I go to bed for a well earned rest.
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Hi rrwillem!
Well done! Congratulations! Prepare yourself for the interview 
Good luck at the tables!
Puschkin81
OK, heres a small story about how it went down.
Started out terrible. After 10 hands I got KQs on the cut off.
The calling station on the button calls my 4x BB raise.
Flop comes 4 T A (2 hearts) I have a straight and flush draw. I bet out, he calls.
Turn 7. I bet out again thinking hes weak and may fold, he calls. River blank and I give up. He checks as well and shows K 4. :-s
That hurt and got me a bit frustrated, because he had been calling everything and he lost my chips within 5 hands again.
2 hands later im in middle position and pick up AQ, I raise big, flop an ace and go all-in to double back to my starting stack.
After that a long run of very few hands, I stay alive by playing the good hands aggressive to earn max. Guys on my table call a lot.
I stay alive but dont really catch up speed, so had to pick a spot. Went in with 99 from middle pos and won coin-flip vs AQ. The hand after I pick up aces, punish a limper with a raise and put it all-in on the flop.
He doesnt call, but I gain a lot of chips from his pre flop call. This when I start picking up speed and get on a roll.
In a couple of short hands I get QQ, AQ and JJ. I almost lose JJ vs 88 and go berserk when I river a jack :p. From this point on its all about aggression. Picking on weak limps, stealing blinds untill final table.
It either aggression that wins it at once or an all-in showdown with the blinds as high as they got. I made a couple of tough laydowns and maybe some questionable pushes, but it all worked out for me.
The final table was super hard because of these blinds. I felt like it was lotto, but I think I picked on the right weak limps / players and pushed the right cards to get an edge. I had a reasonable stack and doubled it with AA against AQ (he tried to steal my blind, LOL talk about bad timing).
After that the play got hard though. The all-in pushes ment youd have to gamble on weak hands. I lost half my stack when I got A 5s in the BB and the SB pushed 2 4 and hit his 4 -_-. Pushed my way back up a bit untill there were 2 huge stacks left and my reasonable stack... Then got cought with K T vs A J and lost.
Im pretty happy with my play, although you always wonder what could have been. Its a shame the play was gone, I might have had an edge then. But I cant complain. I did well and im happy ♦ I guess im gona play more tournaments on Titan, because I 274.55$ earlier yesterday on the 5.5$ buy-in freeze-out.