[PShabi]

Yeah, I made that crap play. Renegade was all-in, I called, Chilly stayed along for the ride. I guess some people like to check it down at that point and try to get one of the two hands to knock out Renegade.

Personally, I wanted Renegade's chips and I didn't want Chilly to add to his stack. So I made a decent-sized bet at the dry side with 3rd pair and got Chilly out. I was ahead too but then the turn helped Renegade. Chilly got on me about that one. I'm playing for PShabi not Chilly.

There were a couple of times where I think people expected me (with the chip lead) to call a short stack. I let go some trash hands (if I would've hand ANYTHING I would've rode with it) in these situations. Mostly it was my holdings and the I didn't want to just let chips go.

It was my first time at a MTT final table and I'm sure I made some basic mistakes. I'd never go easy on anyone because they were TP though. The only decision I made with that in mind was the chop at the end.

If I'm playing anyone from another forum, I would've played it out. It took some time before I finally decided to chop with Taja. My gut said, no, but I'm really competitve.

Anyway, I'm closing the door on this tourney. Still can't believe I got there. I think the biggest thing for me was having some pretty big cards and people pushing all-in against them. 2nd hand, I had AA on a King high flop and I was praying the guy had AK. He did and pushed 'em in with virtually all of his chips still in his stack.

I got QQ vs. 33 and QQ vs. 44 too. Big cards help!