And the winning streak continues

Just played one game this evening, a 6-seater SNG on Absolute, and I came out on top; the streak continues!

It was one of the strangest games I've ever played, but one of the most rewarding at the end.

There were 2 players knocked out on the very first hand when the flop came down hitting everyone and all the chips went in - one guy had top set, another flopped 2-pair and the 3rd an up/down straight draw and a flush draw. Amazingly, the guy on the draw hit his straight on the river and we were down to 4.

2 hands later, seriously, another one bit the dust when top pair and a flush draw came up against a set (on the flop) and it all went in again - the set held up and we were down to 3 - I hadn't played a hand yet.

Now, there's one guy on 4.5k, the other on 3k and me sitting with my starting stack of 1.5k.

I made a couple of moves, knowing that these guys would want to protect their stacks, and got up to 2.5. This dwindled back to 1.8k when I pushed all-in with pocket 10's and got called by A-K (by the guy who'd tripled up first hand). The K hit the flop (inevitably) and I was all ready to call it a night when the miracle 10 hit the river. So, now I'm up to 3.6k and he's down to under 2k.

He must have been on major tilt as he went to war with the big-stack a couple of hands later, and hit the rail.

So now, I'm on 3k against 6k in a deep stack heads-up battle, with the blinds still at 10/20. Heads-up lasted about 40 mins (with the blinds at 8 mins), and I hit an amazing run of cards (as well as making some solid calls) to out-chip the other guy 8k-1k.

At this point I felt invincible and was calling his all-in's with anything, and he clawed his way back to level - then I hit a bad run of river suck-outs (like me flopping 2-pair against his overpair and him catching it on the river), and I ended up down to 2k against his 7k.

I picked up pocket 3's in the BB and when he raised I pushed. He turned up Q-J. The flop came down Q-3-Q - he'd made a set, but I'd flopped a house. I just had to fade a Jack and I was chip leader again. You can never count your chickens in this game, but it held up.

We played a dozen or so small pots and I took another 1k of his chips when we came down to the final hand. I had 5-6 in the SB and limped. He min-raised and I called. The flop came down 5-6-T. I pot bet and he pushed; I insta-called and he flipped up pocket Jacks. My 2-pair held up and after a mammoth heads-up battle I came out victorious.

I'm still smiling from ear-to-ear, as this was one of the most satisfying wins I've ever had. I suppose it was a blessing that we were down to 3-handed so quickly, as the blind were small enough that I could peel off flops and make some moves, without having to put it all on the line.

Having been short-stacked at 3-handed, to watch the big stacks take each other on was beautiful, then to come back from so far behind (twice) heads-up was one of my greatest wins.