Better Rick.... Better

decided that i would disregard the affects of sleep deprivation and would play the $5000 guaranteed tourney at 3:00am this morning despite having about 1 hour sleep in the last fortnight...

Anyway it paid of in a way as I played a brilliant tourney, only got involved in one coin toss all night with QQ v AK two tables out made a nice move that ill post, instead of the $1617 i scooped for second as the tourney details have vanished some 5 hours after the tourney finished. I know i mayhave been infront in this hand anyway, but i thought it took a lot of balls..... especially on the bubble

we are 6 handed with 19 players left (18 got paid) blinds were 2000/4000 and i recieve KJos utg... i decide that i will minimum raise to 8,000 to either see a flop relatively cheaply or to recieve the blinds...

The BB decided to call the extra 4,000 ( im on 52,000 and he's on 60,000 chips on the flop)
the flop brings 5 5 5 , mmmm he is first to speak and bets 10k into the 18k pot now, it doeswt take a genius to see that he has no 5, and i believe if he has a pp he re-raises pre-flop, so i decide im gonna have this and re raise to 24k, he calls..... gulp this puts me on 38k approx, the turn comes a 7 he bets 8k which i flat call... still with k high

the river comes an 8.... he bets 12k into a now rather large looking 82k pot i have 30k back and he has 38k i reraise all in and after a dwell he passes..... i wonder what he had he reckons JQ, i reckon more like 22 or 33..