From a tournament I played tonight.  There were about 25 people left of 1488 when this hand came up and crippled me… Fortunately, I was just tuning up in a $3 tourney, so I don’t feel like I lost thousands of dollars or anything.  Of course, I was shooting for the final table, but that apparently wasn’t meant to be (my luck on the final table bubble is generally pretty awful): 

PokerStars Game #5306181338: Tournament #26603616, $3.00+$0.30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XV (2000/4000) – 2006/06/19 – 23:04:57 (ET)
Table ‘26603616 138′ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: porkhunt (96508 in chips)
Seat 2: TJ Burke (25656 in chips)
Seat 3: schoofinator (53743 in chips)
Seat 4: JoshNjuice (121776 in chips)
Seat 6: dhawkinsart (70393 in chips)
Seat 7: iemdavid (114922 in chips)
Seat 8: jerdog71 (49699 in chips)
porkhunt: posts the ante 200
TJ Burke: posts the ante 200
schoofinator: posts the ante 200
JoshNjuice: posts the ante 200
dhawkinsart: posts the ante 200
iemdavid: posts the ante 200
jerdog71: posts the ante 200
iemdavid: posts small blind 2000
jerdog71: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to JoshNjuice [Qs Qc]
porkhunt: folds
TJ Burke: folds
schoofinator: raises 8000 to 12000
JoshNjuice: raises 38000 to 50000
dhawkinsart: calls 50000
iemdavid: folds
jerdog71: folds
schoofinator: raises 3543 to 53543 and is all-in
JoshNjuice: calls 3543
dhawkinsart: calls 3543
*** FLOP *** [2h Kc 8h]
JoshNjuice: bets 20000
dhawkinsart: calls 16650 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [2h Kc 8h] [7s]
iemdavid said, “huuuuuuuge pot”
iemdavid said, “Q!”
*** RIVER *** [2h Kc 8h 7s] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
JoshNjuice: shows [Qs Qc] (a pair of Queens)
dhawkinsart: shows [Kd Ad] (a pair of Kings)
dhawkinsart collected 33300 from side pot
schoofinator: shows [Kh Ac] (a pair of Kings)
schoofinator collected 84015 from main pot
dhawkinsart collected 84014 from main pot
JoshNjuice said, “awesome”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 201329 Main pot 168029. Side pot 33300. | Rake 0
Board [2h Kc 8h 7s 6d]
Seat 1: porkhunt folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: TJ Burke folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: schoofinator showed [Kh Ac] and won (84015) with a pair of Kings
Seat 4: JoshNjuice showed [Qs Qc] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: dhawkinsart (button) showed [Kd Ad] and won (117314) with a pair of Kings
Seat 7: iemdavid (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: jerdog71 (big blind) folded before Flop

I was a 65% favorite before the flop.  More importantly, if I’d won this pot, I would’ve been the tournament chip leader and I would’ve had second place covered by 2:1.  In other words, I would’ve been in great shape to take a run at winning this tourney (and about $900).  Swell.

End rant… again.