Oh so close

I played some poker last night, my first MTT in forever to be more accurate.
My first PL Omaha Hi/Lo tournament in ages to be even more accurate. There were 276 runners, and I finished in 12th place. I can't take any credit for that though. It was a turbo, and after the first few levels I think every hand I played was either all-in preflop or fold. So basically the whole tournament was a coin-flipping competition for everyone involved.
If I'd just gotten things to go my way on the last hand, I would've been just about a lock for a final table.
Like I said though, I wouldn't be able to calim much credit for it. Every hand I played after a certain, early point was decided by one of three simple circumstances.
1. I'm about to be blinded out. This is a half-way decent hand. Push.
2. I'm too low to be picky, and the price is right. Call.
3. I'm too low to be picky, and at least I still have a bit of fold equity. Push.
I didn't win every hand I played, but I won the ones that counted, up until the end.

That last hand still bothers me a little bit. I was in the big blind, and posting it left me with 2xBB. Getting all-in can't be that bad here right? Getting all-in with A2XX can't be that bad right?
Surely not.
But, at two players on my table had less than a small blind. One was already all-in. The other would have had his stack demolished by antes before he even got blinded in. Outlasting them puts me in 11th place automatically (I only jumped one spot, because one of those shorties lost in my final hand, taking 13th place in the process).
As much as I love making any PS Final Table, it seems like playing to win makes this an obvious decision. The winner took home $750. Ninth place awarded $46.92.
With as little as I play these days, that was probably as good a chance as I'm going to get to win an MTT any time soon. But I always could've folded, lost 25% of my stack to the small blind on the next hand and prayed.
Surely gambling was the only way to go.

Here it is, that final hand for your consideration.


*********** # 77 **************
PokerStars Game #16428284948: Tournament #83141792, $10+$1 Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit - Level XVII (2500/5000) - 2008/04/02 - 03:57:57 (ET)
Table '83141792 28' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: RNuOVR (1815 in chips)
Seat 2: Y@CKM@N (2852 in chips)
Seat 3: jallahore (26041 in chips)
Seat 4: Oscar13 (6974 in chips)
Seat 6: yeeaah135 (51211 in chips)
Seat 7: e4f9j3l3 (54869 in chips)
Seat 9: BurntOrnge (15969 in chips)
RNuOVR: posts the ante 500
Y@CKM@N: posts the ante 500
jallahore: posts the ante 500
Oscar13: posts the ante 500
yeeaah135: posts the ante 500
e4f9j3l3: posts the ante 500
BurntOrnge: posts the ante 500
e4f9j3l3: posts small blind 2500
BurntOrnge: posts big blind 5000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BurntOrnge [Ah 6s 2s 8s]
RNuOVR: calls 1315 and is all-in
Y@CKM@N: folds
jallahore: folds
Oscar13: folds
yeeaah135: raises 17315 to 22315
e4f9j3l3: folds
BurntOrnge: calls 10469 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kd 5d Td]
*** TURN *** [Kd 5d Td] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 5d Td Qs] [8c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BurntOrnge: shows [Ah 6s 2s 8s] (HI: a pair of Eights)
yeeaah135: shows [Kh Kc Jc 3d] (HI: three of a kind, Kings)
yeeaah135 collected 29493 from side pot
RNuOVR: shows [5c Qc 3s As] (HI: two pair, Queens and Fives)
yeeaah135 collected 8760 from main pot
No low hand qualified
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 38253 Main pot 8760. Side pot 29493. | Rake 0
Board [Kd 5d Td Qs 8c]
Seat 1: RNuOVR showed [5c Qc 3s As] and lost with HI: two pair, Queens and Fives
Seat 2: Y@CKM@N folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: jallahore folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Oscar13 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: yeeaah135 (button) showed [Kh Kc Jc 3d] and won (38253) with HI: three of a kind, Kings
Seat 7: e4f9j3l3 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: BurntOrnge (big blind) showed [Ah 6s 2s 8s] and lost with HI: a pair of Eights