FT of a $33+3, $1200 difference between 1st and 2nd and I decline to chop as I think he's a donkey.... this was a hard decision, but I still think the right one, as it's the biggest FT of my life and I have a small BR.

After a little work I get it to 700,00 to 200,000 in chips (my favour), blinds at $4/$8

1st of 3 hands to lose

Raise to $20k on the puck with A7. He calls.

Flop comes A-7-9.

I bet out $25,000, he pushes all in.

I call, he has 92..... hits his 9... ouch

2nd of 3 hands to lose

500,000 to 400,000 chips still in my favour.

He flatcalls, I raise to $25,000 with AJo, he calls.

Flop A99

He checks, I bet out $25,000, he thinks for a while and calls.

Turn 2

I check, he bets $15000, and I get worried, as my read told me that he was super strong here... but still, I call, 15k into a 100k pot hoping for a free river.

I check the river, and he pushes all in.... I hit the tank and fold, and he shows AA... probably the biggest laydown of my life considering I came off of a two outter and it's the biggest heads up match of my life with $1200 on the line.

Final hand to lose
He now has slight chip advantage.

I get 77 on the puck, make it $25000 to go again. He calls.

Flop comes 679. He immediately goes all-in, I call. He shows 85. No improvement, good night, and he (rightly I guess) chirps about me not chopping.

sigh.

Damn, shame to lose to hands like that and then the jackass gets chirpy. Some people don't know when to stfu.

Get 'em next time.

what goes around comes around goose, you WILL get your revenge on this suckout specialist.

congrats on the cash anyways

well the last two weren't suckouts, just bad card combinations for me, and I don't really see how I could have gotten off the flopped set... he pushed way too often with marginal hands or TP to give him credit for the straight here, and in past, like the AA, he almost always had tried to trap/slowplay.

I know but had he not sucked out it would have been all over and you would have been the champion.

Great laydown against the aces by the way.

nice laydown on the 2nd hand though. i'm going bust there for sure. just bad luck on the third hand.

im assume by 4/8 blinds you meant 4k/8k

but on hand 2 im confused

after the flop you said he checked to you

Then on the turn you checked to him???