Biggest Tournament I ever won!

One of my faqvourite games to play is PL Omaha Hi\Lo. I think its the fact that you don't have to have the best hand to get a piece of the pot.

I bought in to a $2.20 tournament on pokerstars that had over 500 entrants. I was getting good hands early so I was building my stack. I eventually got up to about 20,000 in chips when the average was about 13,000 so I was in decent shape.

So there is 2 people who have the same amount of chips as me on the table. I get pocket queens and 2 low cards but decide not to raise. The flop comes 2 J Q which of course initiates a bet of pot from me because I didn't want anyone to chase and hit their straight draw. I get one caller and sure enough it is one of the other big stacks. The turn comes, 7 which I know cannot help him so I bet pot again, he calls. The river comes and it is a 5 so I know that I definitely have the best hand so I bet pot again and surprisingly he calls. He had T K K which gave him a lot outs so I can see why he called the first 2 bets. This pot puts me in 1st with about 200 people still in the tournament.

Now something happens and I end having to sit out for an entire hour which I ok with because I figured I would cash. I log back in expecting me to be blinded out and to my surprise I am still in but with only 500 chips and there is a guy on my table with over 200,000 chips. So I pretty much had to keep going all in at this point but what helped was that the chip leading kept pushing everyone else out. So I doubled up until I had 100,000 chips with 20 people left I took those chips to the final table and I won the tournament. I couldn't believe it, my first omaha tournament win. Over $200 from $2.20.

Sorry for the novel.

[EskimoJoe]

Sick. I play that all the time and can't final table it for my life.

fwiw the 5.50 pl08's on stars are just as soft as the 2.20's.

Keep shippin it

Well congratulation on win!
Pretty insane to work your way up from 500 to 100K, you must have made some really great plays

Congratulations. That's one heck of a come back

congrats

on winning that tourney......

congrats ..

The biggest tournament I ever won was with 45 people ..

CONGRATS ON WIN KEEP IT UP and keep on railbirdin

[EskimoJoe]

You inspired me!

I took down the $2.20 PLO8 on stars today for $207!!!!!!!!

Great way to break my no final table-aments!!!!!!!!

Lets keep on shippin' it!

great job guys! that 500 to over 100,000 to an eventual win is one of the best comebacks ive ever heard of. keep it up guys.