Legendary Comeback (?)by Scott Montgomery | Published: Sep 27, '09 |
 
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I’ve heard a lot of comeback stories from poker tournaments, and after today, I may be on the way to having a great one myself.
I had a rough start during day 1a of the wsope main event. After starting at 30,000 I was down to a little over 20,000 by level 4. I then had a monster pot where I flopped bottom pair and a flush draw, then got it all in after the flush card comes on the turn. I was drawing stone dead though, as my opponent had turned the higher flush.
After the chips were counted I was left with 350 chips, with the blinds at 150/300 and 25 ante. I was down to just over 1% of starting stack, and I had just over one big blind left.
The next hand I quintupled up, after my J8 hit top pair and held. Lucky for me, Brandon Cantu isolated, and then showed a 10 high flush draw. This small mercy was the start for me. A few hands later, I had another more than triple up, with a huge suckout, when my bottom pair hit trips on the river, again against Cantu. Another hand or two later I almost tripled up again when my AA held against QQ. After that I was back in business with over 10,000 in chips.
A level and a half after being down to 350 chips, I was up to 45,000. ( In case you’re wondering, there was one more double up in there, but it was an ugly suckout, so no reason to mention that :p ) It took around 2 hours, but I took my short stack and multiplied it by more than 120 times.
Was it pure luck? Yeah, pretty much. But did it feel good? Damn straight it did.
After one badly timed semi-bluff and one ugly suckout, I finished the day at 18,000 in chips.
Out of all the short stack comeback stories I have heard, I don’t think any of them have started from 1% of starting stack. So now all I have to do to make this one of the greatest comebacks ever is win the tournament. No problem :)
6 Comments
hithenose
1 month ago
No one cares about you man. And for the ppl are gonna say, then why did you read the article, the answer is, I didn't I am just sick of seeing his articles posted. You catch on 2 outer that lands you into the FT, and you prove how much of a donkey you are there, and you expect ppl to take advice from you? I hope not
dsgnr4hire
1 month ago
hey hithenose, could it be envy on your part? the guy is not asking ppl to take his advice. all he's saying is how lucky he got. i don't see any reason for trashing him.
Yaksha_NZ
1 month ago
I like Scott's blogs, personally. He seems like a nice guy living the dream..
DonniKong
1 month ago
I enjoy it too. And You deserve some f--kin luck in that tournament. After how you got eleminated last year that was a f--kin gross hand.
realsitic observer
1 month ago
One can only assume that someone like hithenose has never got to any large event let alone a final table. Truly, if you don't play in the big leagues, just go back to your mundane life and leave everyone else alone. Then we will all 'get lucky'
Richenough
1 month ago
I think Scott M. is a donkey who has gotten very lucky at the right time to get notoriety-- Other than that... he is an awful player.
~~~ I hope he does change his game and learn to curb his aggression to really do something. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BUT i do think his blogs are pointless, its like watching an old episode of WPT event. No one really watches except for those who dont know any better.