I finally won a tournament.

I played the $22 headsup tournament with 256 entries. You play headsup matches and you have to win at least three matches to be in the money, and I played real well in this one. The first four opponents I was never in any trouble in any of the matches, I steamrolled them fairly well. Then the fifth match I was up against a good opponent but in a key pot I flopped two pair, he turned a smaller two pair and I won. In the sixth match I was allin preflop after he raised, I reraised allin with 99 and he called with A-10 and that was the first time I was allin with a coinflip for my tournament life. I flopped a 9 and that was it.

The next hard match was the final, I was already guaranteed over $700 and we were playing for another $700 and change. I managed to beat him after the longest and most grueling out of all the matches, he was by far the best player of the bunch. The key pot in the match was

PokerStars Game #6977037078: Tournament #35144423, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round VIII, Level II (15/30) - 2006/11/11 - 02:09:56 (ET)
Table '35144423 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Gowon (1365 in chips)
Seat 2: MJ1978 (1635 in chips)
MJ1978: posts small blind 15
Gowon: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Gowon [8c 8h]
Gowon said, "I was buzzesd by round of 32"
Gowon said, "no lie"
Gowon said, ":)"
MJ1978: calls 15
Gowon: checks
*** FLOP *** [5d 6h 4d]
Gowon: checks
MJ1978: bets 60
Gowon: raises 120 to 180
MJ1978: raises 1425 to 1605 and is all-in
Gowon: calls 1155 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5d 6h 4d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [5d 6h 4d Qs] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gowon: shows [8c 8h] (two pair, Eights and Fives)
MJ1978: shows [6c 9c] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
Gowon collected 2730 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2730 | Rake 0
Board [5d 6h 4d Qs 5c]
Seat 1: Gowon (big blind) showed [8c 8h] and won (2730) with two pair, Eights and Fives
Seat 2: MJ1978 (button) (small blind) showed [6c 9c] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Fives


And after that I was able to take it down, first paid right around $1400 so it was nice. I am still disappointed about the $5.50 rebuy. But it was fun winning 8 straight heads-up matches.