Thank you. I was very pleased with 2nd. Usually when you get heads up and end up losing there is a bit of a let down. Not this time. It was all good.

I realize that the two hands you mentioned were coinflips and not bad beats. I just put them up there because they cost me good chunks of chips at a crucial stage in the tournament.

Incidentally, both hands had scary flops for both me and my opponent. I was the preflop aggressor on both and then fired out a continuation bet on both. Both times, the caller called my c-bet. Then we check-checked the turn. I am convinced that if I had had the nerve to fire another barrell on the turn, I could have taken BOTH of these pots down. But like I said, they were scary flops for me too. For example... i open raise MP with TT... LP calls w/ KQ. Flop was AQx.... I c-bet the flop for about 2/3 pot and he calls. Then we check-check the turn and the river. You think I should have fired another bullett? I think he woulda folded, but is it really a +EV play? I mean, an AQ flop is scary to pocket tens. That hits a lot of hands that might cold call a preflop raise. Then the flop call tells me I'm beat. What do you think? Good line.. or played differently?