Some hands from Canadian open poker championship

Ok so its time to talk about some hands from the tournament, where I played 5 hours of SOLID poker.. and ended up busting out with QQ against KJ. Here are some hands:
Hand 1: Stack Size:5000 Blinds: 25/25
UTG+2 limps, I limp with 77 and button makes it 100. UTG+2 calls, I call.
Flop: 8 8 5
UTG+2 checks, I check, and button checks.
Turn: 5
UTG+2 checks, I lead out for 200, Button calls and UTG+2 folds
River: 2.
I check, and button fires out 300 and I install call. Just as I thought, button shows AK.. which was a TERRIBLE play to fire the river (she could of just checked instead) and I take that pot down.
I win a few big pots from a calling station and get up to about 6.5K, when this hand happens:

Hand 2: Stack Size: 6.5K, Blinds 25/50
MP raises to 175, CO and button calls. Im in SB with AcQc so I call and BB calls too.
Flop: Jc 5c 6d
I lead out 400 and BB calls and everyone folds
Turn: 9s
I check, BB bets 600 and I call since he's probably got KJ and I got 2 over+flush with a good price
River: 8c
I lead out for 2k and BB sits there thinking for like 2 minutes and finally says "nice bet" and mucks his hand. I thought I played this hand pretty well because I lead out on the flop, so it made it REALLY hard for the BB to put me on a flush draw. So when I fired big on the river, it looked like I was trying to push him off the hand. Bleh.. good laydown sir.

Hand 4: Stack size: 8000 Blinds: 150/300
I pick up 22 in UTG+3 and limp. Button limps, SB completes and BB checks.
Flop: 2d 5c 4c
sb checks, bb checks, I pot for 1200. SB and button folds and BB sits there thinking and saying random stuff like "thats a flop for the blinds, why are you betting?" and stuff like that. Then finally folds saying "77 good". I thought about showing one of my 2's just to make the guy all confused.. but decided not to because I havnt shown down a hand in a long time.. so I'd rather keep them guessing.

After that I go card dead for like 3 levels and get re-raised when I try to make a steal with 76ss, and JT etc.. and slowly dropped to 6K with blinds at 300/600 ante 25 so I'm getting into short stack ninja mode:

Im in the button with K8 and it gets folded to CO, who is a solid player and i EXPECT him to raise with any 2 hands here to steal the blinds. With that in mind, i was planning to re-raise him when he opens for 3x but instead he shoves all in for about 6k. Bleh! cant call that.. Oh well.So I grind it out a few more hours and finally make it back up to 8K at 400/800 ante50 when the following happens:

Im in the sb with 32 off suit, and It gets folded to the button. Like I said, this guy to my right is a solid player and I knew he was going to raise with a wide range here. Before it even gets folded to him, in my head I already knew that If he raised I was going to shove him. So he raised to 2200 and I instantly say "You got me covered right? I'm all in" and push all my chips in. BB Folds. He sits there thinking for a long time and starts to talk to me:
Him: "Man 5K more, I didn't think you had that much."
I laugh and say "Its up to you, you got me covered"
Him: "Why are you raising me so much? Could it be because I'm just raising the button?"
I look surprised and basically make it look like that I never thought of that possibilty and say "Oh yah, that could be a option too"
And then after a couple more seconds of thinking, he obvoiusly mucks and says
"I was beat, nice hand"
And I was like "Yeah I had you.. I had a big ace.. good laydown" LOL

Then a couple hands after that I get 88 and was forced to call a short stack's all in and lose to TT. Then right after I get QQ and raise 2.5x UTG. The guy to my right reshoves me with KJ and I call
Flop: Q69 WOOHOOO
Turn: A
River: T
And i'm out.. pretty brutal way to lose considering I played solid the whole tournament and only went all in twice. The first time was with 32o and second time with QQ.. oh well.. 75th place out of 220 is still pretty good i guess :S




Hmm I think thats it..This was definetly one of the best weekends ever.