I'll let Leftnut tell you about our round.
Gee, thanks, Pasman21, nothing like a little pressure! :laugh:
Yes, Pasman21 took me out in the 2nd round. His all-in 2:1 BJ on the semifinal hand essentially gave him the free pass to round 3. Gutsy move that paid off handsomely - good job. The final hand became 3 of us battling for the one remaining spot. I was BR1 with a comfortable lead of a bit over 2/3 of either of my opponents. They both pushed all-in, my bet was structured so that I had it with a win-win, lose-lose, and my loss to their push. Even had the DD against their BJ! One guy hit up to 21, I had 20, only thing that could derail me was the dealer making exactly 20...... oh, well.
Pasman21's last hand in the one-advance semifinal with Deb was quite interesting. Four left, looked something like this although I can't remember chip counts:
BR4 goes all-in
BR3 goes all-in
BR2 (Pasman21) goes all in but saves one chip, has BR3 & BR4 covered by a bunch
BR1 (Deb) covers Pasman21
I think the two low BR's busted. Pasman21 has soft 18, Deb has hard 18. Dealer had a 6 up. I was impressed as Pasman correctly started hitting, obviously realizing that he was dead meat if he did the usual move of standing on that 18 since Deb had the same total. He made a stiff with the first card & then 20 with the second hit. Deb stood on her hard 18 and the dealer busted to advance her to the final table.
I think there's a good teaser question relating to Pasman21's last bet. If he can remember the actual chip totals, or something close to it, maybe I can construct one. His bet was excellent considering what the 2 low BR's did in front of him, but there might have been a better bet in there somewhere.