…or quad sevens for that matter.

In the midst of playing out my Party Poker bonus, I decided to play a $15 NL multi-table tournament. I’ve been having trouble cashing in these gigantor tournaments. Usually I just end up blowing a couple hours and losing somewhere shy of the bubble, but I keep playing them because I really need the practice. The $15 NL tourney had 1880 players. It paid out all the way to 220th place. Under usual circumstances, this would mean I would place somewhere around 380th place. Not so close to the money that I could really beat myself up about a particular play, but far enough that I had already blown a couple hours playing. Tonight, everything seemed to be working out perfectly. If I made a hand, someone with a draw would call me and miss (and sometimes they’d still call the rivier. I only had one heads up all-in where I was behind and I pulled out two pair to crush an overpair. But as well as things were going, I still didn’t make it to the real money. Instead, I took 120th place. Which sounds pretty lousy on the surface, but it’s not terrible to outlast more than 90% of the field. But the way I lost was the interesting part. Check it out:

#Game No : 2091211965
***** Hand History for Game 2091211965 *****
NL Hold’em Trny:12442080 Level:12 Blinds (500/1000) – Sunday, May 22, 23:48:00 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(342119) Table #6 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: JerryPie9 ( $8650 )
Seat 3: MAXIMUS07 ( $15564 )
Seat 4: EIGHTS_WILD ( $6695 )
Seat 5: DAVDOG ( $6937 )
Seat 6: gus ( $7390 )
Seat 7: todgrif ( $35039 )
Seat 8: rebelfolk ( $27852 )
Seat 9: DAYTONKID ( $36585 )
Seat 10: PureButter ( $19964 )
Trny:12442080 Level:12
Blinds (500/1000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to gus [ Ad 6d ]
gus raises [2000].
todgrif folds.
rebelfolk folds.
DAYTONKID calls [2000].
There will be a break in 1 minute(s)
PureButter folds.
JerryPie9 folds.
MAXIMUS07 folds.
EIGHTS_WILD folds.
DAVDOG folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, 7d, 3c ]
gus is all-In [5390]
DAYTONKID calls [5390].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
gus shows [ Ad, 6d ] a flush, ace high.
DAYTONKID shows [ 7h, 7c ] four of a kind, sevens.
DAYTONKID wins 16280 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, sevens.
Player gus finished in 120 place and received $28.2
gus has left the table.

Quad sevens. Jesus. A few hands before this I had been severly crippled. I can’t find the log, but someone slowplayed and pushed at just the right time for me to feel confident enough to call a hand where I was behind. I don’t know why I was so interested in this A6 (especially in early position), but I was really married to the idea of sealing those blinds. And when two of my suit showed up, pushing was definitely the only option. Unfortunately those damn sevens. Arrrggg. They’re driving me nuts!

Oh yeah, and yes, I do feel dirty for having used a Monty Python reference in my title.