[MrMon]

I came in 85th. Got as high as 4th. Was about 20th when I went out on this play.

Game #949658324 - Tournament $1,000,000 - 3,000/6,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em -
2005/08/27-19:38:18.4 (CST)
Table "$1,000,000 269" (MTT) -- Seat 4 is the button
Seat 2: thedevilfish (127,569 in chips)
Seat 3: trombly (144,293 in chips)
Seat 4: MrMom (168,868 in chips)
Seat 5: DCDivot (152,416 in chips)
Seat 7: Pocket_99 (345,285 in chips)
Seat 8: DaBigLick (58,565 in chips)
Seat 9: Buffettjr (102,469 in chips)
Seat 10: poonbear (92,707 in chips)
trombly : Ante (300)
MrMom : Ante (300)
DCDivot : Ante (300)
Pocket_99: Ante (300)
DaBigLick: Ante (300)
Buffettjr: Ante (300)
poonbear: Ante (300)
thedevilfish: Ante (300)
DCDivot : Post Small Blind (3,000)
Pocket_99: Post Big Blind (6,000)
Dealing...
Dealt to MrMom [ 8s ]
Dealt to MrMom [ 8d ]
DaBigLick: Fold
Buffettjr: Fold
poonbear: Fold
thedevilfish: Fold
trombly : Fold
MrMom : Raise (20,000)
DCDivot : Fold
Pocket_99: Call (14,000)
*** FLOP *** : [ Td 7c 6s ]
Pocket_99: Check
MrMom : Bet (25,000)
Pocket_99: Raise (324,985)
MrMom : Call All-in (123,568)
*** TURN *** : [ Td 7c 6s ] [ 4s ]
*** RIVER *** : [ Td 7c 6s 4s ] [ As ]
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: 342,536 | Board: [ Td 7c 6s 4s As ]
thedevilfish lost 300 (folded)
trombly lost 300 (folded)
MrMom lost 168,868 (showed hand) [ 8s 8d ] (a pair of eights)
DCDivot lost 3,300 (folded)
Pocket_99 bet 345,285, collected 518,953, net +173,668 (showed hand) [ 7s Ah ]
(two pair, aces and sevens)
DaBigLick lost 300 (folded)
Buffettjr lost 300 (folded)
poonbear lost 300 (folded)

Going back over it, I suppose I could have pushed with the 88 preflop, but the big stack was BB, so I went with a standard raise. He called. When the flop hit and he checkraised all-in, I figured I was way ahead, no way he would play that way if he wanted a call. Turns out I was right and was an 81.4% favorite. Unfortunately, he caught the A on the river, otherwise I become chip leader at that point.

As the classy pros say on TV, I got all my chips in as the favorite, in this case the BIG favorite, but it just didn't work out. Would have liked to have made the top 50 for the $500, but I gotta say I'm happy with how I played.