Back to Porto from la toja

Friday Every tournment have his story and you learn someting from them. This was no different! I went friday to la toja and the 1st thing i ask in the hotel was " did any portuguese guy arrived?". The girl in the reception ( a beautiful blond } said " not yet but orlando will arrive today". Orlando? i thought...humm well orlando is a well known portuguese poker player. But the question was "will he be a cool or a cocky guy? well lets wait and see ... i went to the bedroom to take care of my self and after me and my girlfriend decided to go to the Casino of la toja. On the way out i asked again "did orlando arrived yet?" This time the answer was different "yes but i think he go out." we arrieved to the Casino and we find the poker on the top floor. There i saw orlando he was with a tshit saying orlandop on the back. He was playing a sit&go and since i couldn´t see his chips i asked in portuguese "how many chips do you have?". He turned his back and said "the ones in the SB +1200" and went all in. For 2 seconds 2 things cross my mind: a} shit what a fucking stupid question to ask if he is piss of now i´m in troble b}i hope i help the guy with giving him and open with the turn of the back and the going all in ( showing he was satisfied with his 2 cards and he could turn his back to the other players talk with someone and then go all in" He recived a call and he busted. damm we started to talk and 10sec later arrived 2 players i didn´t knew, Nuno Canossa (Didascalos} and Pedro "Amial" Monteiro. Both seemed to be to verry nice guys and after a quick chat we decied to play a sit and go. my fist thought in that sit and go was "2 bullys on the table???"wtf... players pick the cards in the hand in front of the eyes,etc... i thought its in the bag but i was wrong the bullys 1st take care of Pedro but i dont remember the hand. then after orland almost doble up and eliminated nuno this hand happend. vilan1-raised to 300 vilan 2- went all in for 1200 orlando on the SB went all in for 4500 BB after thinking a litle bit went all in too for 2500 the vilan1 didn´´t thought too mutch and also went all in showdonw vilan1-77 vilan2-AQ orlando-A10 BB-77 the flop A46 great even if orlando lost to vilan2 he is going to take care of most of the pot turn-5 river-8 omg well u get the picture now 7 hands later the bully called a all in for one short stack short stack-Aj bully aka vilan1 from last hand- TT flop 987 turn K river T the bully start chanting saying three Ten and the dealer start to giving him the chips and the worst part the other player was starting to get up of his chair i could shut up because after that it was only me and more 3 guys and i probably could get ITM but i went MAD and start shooting in every direction. to the bully because he was a moron to the other player because he was worst and finally to the dealer well after that my concentration i lost my chips. I couldn´t be near the casino for one me second and i wasked orlando where can i eat a good parrilhada. "A solina is the place" he said he was a gent and was kind enought to give the directions and offered to take us there. I was glad that i found someone like him friendly enought and with the poker know how. we had a superb dinner and we went party with orlando, pedro, nuno and nuno´s girlfriend. Saturday wtf i have a hangover.... we went to the SPA of la toja ( one word GREAT } and after that we went to the hotel because the tournment was one hour away. He arrived at casino la toja and i was surprised some big name there pakito - professional poker player from spain Juan Maceiras -the spaish guy that last year won the 3 bigest tournment on fulltilt and almost the best portuguese players zummy- the guy with more final tables in solverde Diogo "Phounder" Veiga-aka wonder kid Sponsored by betfair among with others well known portuguese poker players. The tournment started blinds 25-50 my 3rd hand AhAc utg+1 who had lost almost 2k on last hand raised to 350. everyone fold i was CO and i raised to 1000 everyone folded 5 hands later QcQs i was UTG+1 so i decided to call the raise that the utg did 250 but i had no luck 4 calls damm floop JcTs2h utg call and i bet 800 sb fold bb fold utg asked me "what do you have?" i replyed "ace high" "no" "let me see... top pair" he said "AJ???" i said"yeah something like that" he fold and show J and and show him QQ it was dinner time i was with 10.5k and the average was around 10k then i saw orland was out damm back to the table well i´m a verry tight player and i like to the table to respect me but i change table 4 times after 5 min @ my new tb i got AQ suited everyone fold till my position so i bet 1500 the blinds @ 600-300 i got 2 calls diogo phounder on the CO and from quintas on the SB quintas was the chip leader on the tb and phounder also have 15k with that bet i was with 7.0k flop KQ8 sb check i check phounder bet 2500 quintas fold on the small blind well it was time to double up i thought phounder likes to make some bluffs and i start to thought wtf can he have AQ?AK? no if he had that he would had raise in the CO KQ? or made a tree of a kind with a poket pair in that case on 88 make some sence.could be but that would be sick K shit? probably Q shit? probably or trying to steal the pot well i decided to go all in he made a instant call with KQ damm i thought still have 3 outs Ace Ace was on my mind turn 6 cmon i thought river K well it´s over i finish in 45th in 84 guys i will be back Francisco "the truth" Costa