Monday Night Muck Em

We did not have a game on Memorial Day.  This week we had decided to do a non points larger buy in larger stack game.  I was concerned considering my recent results. 

We started the game with 10,000 chips, 4,000 more than usual with the same 20 minute blind structure. 
25-25
25-50
50-100
100-200
200-400
break
500-1000
1000-2000 500 ante
2000-4000 500 ante
5000-10000 1000 ante
10000-20000 1000 ante

Notice the gaps in blinds after break. 

I went into the game ready to broaden my range and play more aggressively.  As soon as we started I realized that was not going to happen.  The guy directly to my left went on a heater all the way to break.  It was a one man show and his stack was enormous.  I won 1 hand pre-break.  He had just went to showdown 4 times in a row with close to nuts hands.  I didn't have anything but ended up betting him out of the pot.

At break I was sitting on close to my beginning stack.  The first hand back I was dealt pocket J's and had 2 smaller stacks go all in before me.  I called and faced 88 and 9 10o.  I took out both players and had a decent stack to play with.  A couple hands later I had 10 J suited and called another small stack's all in.  I hit a J on the flop to win that hand. 

I coasted to the final 4 from there.  We were pretty even stacked with 4 players left and I proposed a chop.  That would have given us all 2nd place money.  The pre break dominator shot it down right away so we played.  The blinds then jumped to 5000-10000.  I had 3 bb's which was 2nd biggest stack, but thought if I could push the blinds out of the hand 1 time I would be set to do some damage, when I looked at my Q8 of diamonds.  I was called by the big blind with almost all of his chips with a J10 off suit.  I hit a Q on the flop but he turned a J and then rivered a 10.  I got my buy in back plus some. 

Most of the time I would have waited for 1 more person to go out to make a play like that.  In this situation I felt I needed to make that play to give me a chance to win.  It almost worked out better than expected when he called and I spiked the Q. 

The person who turned down the chop finished 2nd, so it didn't hurt him to turn down the chop.  I have no hard feelings about it either.  He played well and deserved to have a shot at 1st place money and bragging rights.