I logged about an hour and 15mins playing a $1 SnG 2X or Nothing last night. I was able to place so that was nice. Boy did things get tight there. At the beginning I got some nice cards and wons some pots, one real big with a full house and he called me down with his set. Actually the same opponent busted later when he ran into another full house...that sucks for him.
I had a nice amount of chips and was running second for most of it, and even crept into first for a while. I just played my high Aces and high pairs and stole blinds when folded to me in LP. Thats the key, especially late in the game. I had a bad few stretches where I got good cards but ran inot 3 people who all held high pocket pairs so I lost that one once I folded the flop. Another few raised pots I had to let go on the flop and I was in trouble. I just kept the pressure on the blinds who were in worse shape than me but not in pushing mode yet so they folded every time. That kept me up.
The last hand was awful. An opponent who pushed with about 500 chips left got called by 2 players. I was like "great it should be over". The other two players checked it on the flop and turn but then on the river one player raised it up! I was almost yelling at the screen "WTF Man! its called co-operation!!" This guy was such an ass the whole game, a call station who got lucky a few times and had a nice chip lead on everyone.
Thankfully he took the pot and the last player was booted...
Everyone was so passive and scared at the end b/c of the blinds...
People were limping in with AKs, and one even with KK in a multiway pot....unbelievable...