I am a tournament donkey and don't play many of them. I wasted 9 hours of my time to make one colossal screw up and finish 12th out of 959.

How was I supposed to play this? I am guessing check/fold the turn right? I know calling on both streets was clearly incorrect and I should have either check/folded or pushed the turn.

Did I raise enough on the flop?

I don't have that good of a read on villain because I had been playing for 9 hours and was mentally exhausted. The few hands I watched him in though would seem to indicate he doesn't call raises with connectors (78) but instead opens with them.


PokerStars Game #2960890740: Tournament #14413902, Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII
(4000/8000) - 2005/11/03 - 03:13:39 (ET)
Table '14413902 99' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: WaffleMcHat (551455 in chips)
Seat 4: Harberts (591770 in chips)
Seat 5: FedePoker (297038 in chips)
Seat 6: buckeb024 (1069010 in chips)
Seat 7: captain14 (147692 in chips)
Seat 8: Forcey17 (178363 in chips)
WaffleMcHat: posts the ante 400
Harberts: posts the ante 400
FedePoker: posts the ante 400
buckeb024: posts the ante 400
captain14: posts the ante 400
Forcey17: posts the ante 400
Forcey17: posts small blind 4000
WaffleMcHat: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WaffleMcHat [Td 9s]
Harberts: raises 16000 to 24000
FedePoker: folds
buckeb024: calls 24000
captain14: folds
Forcey17: folds
WaffleMcHat: calls 16000
*** FLOP *** [6s Tc 9h]
WaffleMcHat: checks
Harberts: bets 32000
buckeb024: calls 32000
WaffleMcHat: raises 168000 to 200000
Harberts: folds
buckeb024: calls 168000
*** TURN *** [6s Tc 9h] [7s]
WaffleMcHat: checks
buckeb024: bets 152000
WaffleMcHat: calls 152000
*** RIVER *** [6s Tc 9h 7s] [4h]
WaffleMcHat: checks
buckeb024: bets 216000
WaffleMcHat: calls 175055 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
buckeb024: shows [8d 8c] (a straight, Six to Ten)
WaffleMcHat: shows [Td 9s] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
buckeb024 collected 1164510 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1164510 | Rake 0
Board [6s Tc 9h 7s 4h]
Seat 1: WaffleMcHat (big blind) showed [Td 9s] and lost with two pair, Tens and
Nines
Seat 4: Harberts folded on the Flop
Seat 5: FedePoker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: buckeb024 showed [8d 8c] and won (1164510) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 7: captain14 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Forcey17 (small blind) folded before Flop

I finally get a chance of making my first final table out of 30+ tournaments and blow it. Kill me now.