Network Problems Lead to Win!

What a strange evening.

For the first time ever,  Pokerstars crashed on me while I was playing online.

I had (3) single table Sit-N-Gos, and a 45 player tourmanet going at once, when BLAMO…  frozen tables… no connection.

I tried for 30 mins to reconnect,  I couldn’t even log onto the Pokerstars website from either of my two machines.  Everything else worked, email, the web, IM, but Pokerstars was down.  However, my brother was able to log on from Chicago,  so I knew it must of been some sort of west coast issue.

As I frantically tried to get back onto my tournaments, I get an email from PS telling me I took 3rd place (and $10 bucks) in one of my single table Sit-N-Gos.  not bad for not playing!  hmmm maybe I should give this strategy a shot.

The real bummer was that in the 45 player tourney, I had just doubled up before I lost connection with around 40 players left.

FINALLY… after about 30 minutes I’m able to get back on.

The other Sit-N-Gos are history,  however the 45 player tournament is still live,  and there are 15 players left,  and I’m in 15th place.   I wasn’t blinded out!

Almost immediatly I get AK, push all in, and double up against some Donk calling with A-7.  (You should never call a push with Ace trash, the reason being the person pushing almost always has a pair over your trash card, or even worse, Ace 10 thru Ace King).

The double up keeps me alive, and by some miracle I make it to the final table,  then to the money (top seven),  then to the final three,  then heads up, and then… 

I win it!  

Woot!   Ok it was just $70 bucks,  but not bad for a guy who didn’t even play in the tournament for 30 minutes.

While it wasn’t a lot of money, it was one of my more satisfying wins of late.