[tdarko]

20+2, 180 man sng. 25 players left.

my image is that i was real loose since being moved to my new table, i had accumulated a lot of chips and was in the top 5. then i picked up this hand...

PokerStars Game #3037002171: Tournament #15000038, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/11/12 - 02:11:35 (ET)
Table '15000038 1' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: tbranson (15925 in chips)
Seat 3: Jman614 (8200 in chips)
Seat 4: Nasty36 (11090 in chips)
Seat 5: bhar (7255 in chips)
Seat 6: Cokemanjeff (17335 in chips)
Seat 7: plax02 (4020 in chips)
Seat 8: SenTed (2315 in chips)
Seat 9: JLemaC5 (9195 in chips)
tbranson: posts the ante 25
Jman614: posts the ante 25
Nasty36: posts the ante 25
bhar: posts the ante 25
Cokemanjeff: posts the ante 25
plax02: posts the ante 25
SenTed: posts the ante 25
JLemaC5: posts the ante 25
tbranson: posts small blind 200
Jman614: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tbranson [As Ah]
Nasty36: raises 1400 to 1800
bhar: folds
Cokemanjeff: folds
plax02: folds
SenTed: folds
JLemaC5: folds
tbranson: raises 14100 to 15900 and is all-in
Jman614: folds
Nasty36: calls 9265 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jh 2h Js]
*** TURN *** [Jh 2h Js] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 2h Js Jd] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tbranson: shows [As Ah] (a full house, Jacks full of Aces)
Nasty36: shows [9c 9d] (a full house, Jacks full of Nines)
tbranson collected 22730 from pot

so now i am the chip leader by about 13K. literally 5 hands later i pick up this hand...

PokerStars Game #3037022027: Tournament #15000038, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/11/12 - 02:14:55 (ET)
Table '15000038 1' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: tbranson (28265 in chips)
Seat 3: Jman614 (9275 in chips)
Seat 5: bhar (7530 in chips)
Seat 6: Cokemanjeff (16635 in chips)
Seat 7: plax02 (2320 in chips)
Seat 8: SenTed (2215 in chips)
Seat 9: JLemaC5 (9095 in chips)
tbranson: posts the ante 25
Jman614: posts the ante 25
bhar: posts the ante 25
Cokemanjeff: posts the ante 25
plax02: posts the ante 25
SenTed: posts the ante 25
JLemaC5: posts the ante 25
plax02: posts small blind 200
SenTed: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tbranson [Ks Kc]
JLemaC5: folds
tbranson: raises 800 to 1200
Jman614: raises 8050 to 9250 and is all-in
bhar: folds
Cokemanjeff: raises 7360 to 16610 and is all-in
tbranson:?????


i had raised the last 3 hands to 1200 so this was standard for me.