North Florida Poker Classic Key Hands

Played in Day 1C of the NFPC today, deep stack trney, 20k starting chips and 30min levels, 3 day event. Started off pretty good, and I wanted to post a couple of my interesting hands.

I wasnt seeing much early picked up a few small pots, then with blids about 100-200 I get 78 clubs in late position, 2-3 limpers ahead so I decide to raise it up to steal either preflop or on the flop. 2 Callers, flop was 2310, utg player leads out with a 600 bet, i raise him to 2000 and a player in the blinds folds UTg calls, turn is another deuce he checks, i bet 3000 saying PLEASE FOLD.. he calls, river is a J, he checks, it was early I decided to give up so I check, ready to muck my hand and he says,You got me, 5 high. He had 45suited and was chasing that open ender.. WOW my 8 high takes down a 12000ish pot. The button player cant believe it, he is so pissed he said he folded JJ.

Then a few hands later, I am in the small blind with J8clubs, a few limpers around and I call. Flop comes out 78Q all hearts, no one bets, and turn is the J hearts. So, I have 2 pair but 4 hearts on board, i check again and it checks around. Finally river comes out, a beautiful J of Spades for a full boat. I bet out 2000, BB RAISES me to 5000, I looked at the board, I was pretty convinced he had A high flush, so I reraise him to 10K, hoping he will shove about 15 more to get me all in, and he does, but then i was like damn. Does this guy have me beat? I thought maybe JQ, but it didnt seem like it. I started thinking maybe 77 or 88.. either way I called, he turns over J7, and I double my stack to about 50K.

Lots of others, but then after 2nd break i started to take some hits.. misplayed a couple of hands, got reraised and had to fold.. Went from 42K to about 25K, really hurt, one hand I lost 14000 when the top pair on the board 7 paired, I had 99 and was looking good on the flop, guy check raised me all in when the turn came out a 2nd 7 so I had to fold.

My last hand of the night, with just 30min left in Day 1, i got QQ in the big blind, i have 25500 chips left, blinds are now 600/1200, button raises to 2400, SB calls, I reraise it to 12500 trying to take down the pot there, Button calls, flop comes out J high, BEAUTY! I shove my last 13K chips in.. The dude says "This is probably a bad call" and calls and turns over AQ.. As usual, an A hits the turn and I am outta there. Bad beats hurt worse live, because theres such a finality of it all. I hate it.
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