Re: A gigabet hand:
 

Gigabet is a friggin' luckbox:

"PokerStars Game #3104827439: Tournament #15015668, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/11/19 - 22:10:09 (ET)
Table '15015668 23' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BulletsMcGee (4685 in chips)
Seat 2: Shockncall (22555 in chips)
Seat 3: mgw21 (45610 in chips)
Seat 4: AnnieT33 (4055 in chips)
Seat 5: GigaBet (26810 in chips)
Seat 6: MashieNiblic (13760 in chips)
Seat 8: bbysux (3115 in chips)
Seat 9: player400 (17710 in chips)
BulletsMcGee: posts the ante 25
Shockncall: posts the ante 25
mgw21: posts the ante 25
AnnieT33: posts the ante 25
GigaBet: posts the ante 25
MashieNiblic: posts the ante 25
bbysux: posts the ante 25
player400: posts the ante 25
mgw21: posts small blind 200
AnnieT33: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
mgw21 said, "very"
GigaBet: calls 400
MashieNiblic: folds
bbysux: raises 2690 to 3090 and is all-in
player400: folds
BulletsMcGee: folds
Shockncall: folds
mgw21: folds
AnnieT33: raises 940 to 4030 and is all-in
GigaBet: calls 3630
*** FLOP *** [7c 2s Ac]
*** TURN *** [7c 2s Ac] [Tc]
mgw21 said, "bad karma stealing my blind w Ace rag"
*** RIVER *** [7c 2s Ac Tc] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AnnieT33: shows [Qs Qh] (a pair of Queens)
GigaBet: shows [Qd Jh] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
GigaBet collected 1880 from side pot
bbysux: shows [Js Ad] (a pair of Aces)
GigaBet collected 9670 from main pot"

Re: A gigabet hand:
 

Fortunate indeed, but the call there is perfectly sound IMO.

If you want, I'll crunch the numbers after I finish the tournament.

Re: A gigabet hand:
 

I got no problem with his call, just sayin' he's a luckbox:)

Re: A gigabet hand:
 

Im a fish who just made a bad read and threw away 3/4ths his stack

Re: Stars 30+3 Deepstack
 

Out in 80th....aaaaaaaargh

PokerStars Game #3105952809: Tournament #15015668, Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200) - 2005/11/20 - 00:09:49 (ET)
Table '15015668 51' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: NUTTY54 (87379 in chips)
Seat 2: FTIBBS (47314 in chips)
Seat 3: Gildwulf (58405 in chips)
Seat 4: ykurtz (59947 in chips)
Seat 5: Wensey (97945 in chips)
Seat 6: majorleag (76243 in chips)
Seat 7: Slippery Sam (69832 in chips)
Seat 8: sanndman963 (42565 in chips)
Seat 9: Svinto (16933 in chips)
NUTTY54: posts the ante 75
FTIBBS: posts the ante 75
Gildwulf: posts the ante 75
ykurtz: posts the ante 75
Wensey: posts the ante 75
majorleag: posts the ante 75
Slippery Sam: posts the ante 75
sanndman963: posts the ante 75
Svinto: posts the ante 75
NUTTY54: posts small blind 600
FTIBBS: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Gildwulf [Qs Qc]
Gildwulf: raises 3600 to 4800
ykurtz: folds
Wensey: folds
majorleag: raises 20200 to 25000
Slippery Sam: folds
sanndman963: folds
Svinto: folds
NUTTY54: folds
FTIBBS: folds
Gildwulf: raises 33330 to 58330 and is all-in
majorleag: calls 33330
*** FLOP *** [4h 9h 9s]
Gildwulf said, "gg"
*** TURN *** [4h 9h 9s] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [4h 9h 9s 5c] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gildwulf: shows [Qs Qc] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
majorleag: shows [Kc Kd] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
majorleag collected 119135 from pot
Wensey said, "nh"