Your turn or mine, Rob?

Played Malahide tonight and had a real rollercoaster. Managed to lose half my stack first hand with a set against a rivered gutshot, get it back next hand, lose it again gradually, only to win a race to double back up to starting stack after the break. Never looked back until 5 handed my QQ got dogged by AQ. That left me crippled with just over 2 BBs. Amazingly, my first shove got through! Then the Clamper effectively shoved 88 into my JJ in the big blind and I doubled up, and shortly afterwards the guy who had dogged my ladies pot committed himself with AJ against my AA and in three hands I'd moved from a ghost to chipleader. Never looked back after that, had a 2 to 1 chiplead by the time I got headsup with The Clamper, and the headsup battle lasted all of 4 hands when he shoved 54s, I looked down at a J and decided I was calling if the second card was higher than a 9. It was: another jack!
Rob got a stack early on but then got very unlucky when he reraised with JJ and got called by KQ and lost the race, and coolered when a rivered house turned out to be up against a slowplayed higher house. Rob's friend Alan did really well and was unlucky to exit in 4th losing a race against me.
On the drive home, we worked out that when we (Rob and I) have played a tournament in Malahide, one of us has ended up winning it more than half the time. So fair to say it's been a happy hunting ground.
Next up is Killarney: heading down for the supersat on Thursday. May head to Clonmel on Sunday: still a bit undecided.
On the running front, I seem to be regaining both my fitness and my enthusiasm: my last few speed sessions have been my best in about 18 months.

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