[napawino]

$30 Multi on PokerStars last night. ~500 entries. I'll skip straight to the interesting hands.

~60 people left Blinds: 1000/2000 ante 100
Hero is chip leader with 93,000
#2 (35,000), #3 (27,000) & #5 (24,000) are all at my table!
#3 (teecoy) is very aggressive & sitting to my right. He is also the tournament point leader on Pokerstars, so I'm giving him a little respect.

Dealt KK in the sb. Folded to teecoy (27,000) on the button who goes all-in. Without hesitating I call. Should I have considered folding here? Obviously I think I've got the best hand, but there are only a few people that can bruise my stack. Should I wait for a better opportunity & keep pushing the small stacks around? Results are unimportant (but obvious from the rest of the post.)

Down to 7. Blinds 3000/6000 ante 300 I've got 100k (#4 maybe?) & MP has ~95k)
Dealt Kh6h in the BB. Somewhat fishy player minimum raises from MP. Folded to me, I call.
Flop 6c Ah 5h. I make a pot-sized bet. MP calls
Turn 4h. Bingo. Should I bet? I did & MP came over the top with A4 which didn't improve.

& the big hand that had my girlfriend & I arguing for 10 minutes afterward...
2 players left.
Teecoy (490,000) & hero (290,000)
Blinds 4000/8000 ante 400
5th hand head's up. I had KK a few hands earlier, but Teecoy has raised EVERY hand short handed so unless I'm going to catch another KK, I'm going to have to make some moves.
Dealt 7c 9c in the BB.
Teecoy raises 3BB to 22,000. I think about it, but call.
Flop 5d Kc 4c. Pot is 45,000
I bet 45k. Teecoy raises to 90k (minimum raise)
Hmm. If I fold, I only have just under 200k & he's got about 600k. I think about it for a second & raise all-in. (My girlfriend screams at me.)
Teecoy IMMEDIATELY calls with Kd 7h & I don't improve.

(& on a side note, this Teecoy fella must have his own "crew" because there were about 8 railbirds giving him the "hizzie, sizzie, sweeeet" crap the whole time. Not that I'm bitter. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

My girlfriend's argument was that I needed to claw my way back & not get impatient. She also thinks that I'm a good heads-up player (which I am in $10 SNG's but I'm not sure that applies here.) Advice is appreciated.