188 Opponents left and Counting I am in 21st

I am now in 21st place and my decisions are getting better and better. I have slowed down my game just a little bit but my intuition is in full alert if it feels like I have the best hand, a raise is coming up!

Besides all the regular stealing, two major hands defined my day 4. It only took my about 10 minutes to double up when an aggressive guy at the table couldn't take it anymore. Here is the story:

Hand 1: I raise and everybody folds.
Hand 2: He raises and I pop it, he folds.
Hand 3: He raises, I re-raise him again and this time he decides to play for all his money with AQs. Unfortunately for him, I was holding Aces and I doubled up to around 735k.

The second big hand of the day came when I was getting ready to go on dinner break (which by the way should have been cancelled or postponed as we only ended up playing og a level after dinner). Monster hand no. 2:
I raise, a villain at the table comes over the top and I call with



The flop comes:


He bets and I consider my actions for a long time before calling. I am obviously eyeing his stack and I hope he is holding something like AK or AQ. Turn:



He checks and I fire 200,000 into the pot hoping to induce a reaction from my opponent. He moves all-in for an additional 200,000 and I call. He shows



River:



Suddenly I am up to 1.35 million!

During the final level, I was able to win a few blinds and antes and re-raise a couple of times. I even had Queens once against a very tight player. He opens the pot with a raise, I re-raise him from the SB and he quickly calls giving me an almost certain tell, that he was holding AK. The flop comes:



I check, he bets and I fold simple!

My table today isn't fabulous. I have the current tournament chip leader in seat 1 and the table is loaded with chips but I will just have to take it one pot or one re-raise at a time.

More later

Gus

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