I remember a while ago I was down to the top 10 of a $10 buy-in NL Hold 'Em Tourney, 2nd chip stack by a whole lot. I'd been playing really well and getting some good cards. I made a remark about how I'd never made a final table at one of these, and was excited to be only one place away. This is when the poker Gods laughed at me. I was dealt AK, AA, and AQ successively. Wait, this is a bad thing? Well, the AK I didn't hit the flop with, but I was overly aggressive and lost many chips due to my own fault. Next I put a medium stack JJ all-in with my AA and sure enough a J hit. Short-stacked now, I went all-in with my AQ, got called and came up empty. Out in 10th place. From hero to zero in 3 hands.
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