[buckeyeguy84]

i've probably played as many tourny's and sng's over the last 2 or 3 as is humanly possible for someone with a 9-5 job, and the majority have come on stars. Before Party got shut down, i was up about 20k in about 5 months, not bad for a kid right out of college. Anyway, since i've converted to stars, ive lost 30k over the last 2yrs, and i am never playing there again. Last night was the final straw.

$5 rebuy with 2400 people to start, 20k guaranteed with I think roughly $5k going to the winner, and top 460 getting paid out. Well it's down to about 550, and I am 6k over the avg of 20,000 chips when I suddenly get moved to another table.

My 2nd hand I am in the cutoff and pop it 3xbb with AKofhearts. Button smoothe calls, and BB goes all in (he was short stacked, and only had 6k left). I at this point wanted to isolate him and get the button out, so i re raised his all in to 14k (half of the button's remaining stack), and he smoothe calls.

At this point I think I am at best a 50/50 with the button, and could care less about the BB...so the flop hits hard for me. nothing higher than 9 (3,4, and 9) with all hearts (flopped the nut flush). I decided to bet as if to make it seem like I really didn't have the hearts. I also wanted to see if he hit a set or something and I could at least make him earn his boat. I got what I wanted as he pushes all in over the top of me. I insta-call and he has.....46os, no heart. So he has middle pair on a all heart board, and he called half his stack pre-flop with 6 high when someone went all in and than someone else went over that....

Anyway, I start laughing until the turn, when he hits his 3rd 4. I instanly knew what was coming, and sure enough the river 6 knocked me out. It was a 56k pot which would've put me in the top 10 at the time, and allowed me to coast into the money. I wondered why he called pre flop, and than I realized why. He knew. There's no other logical explanation. And I am done. F U Stars.