yuck!!

wasn't crazy about this call, but this guy kept making massive overbets the entire time we were heads up.....

PokerStars Game #23287758343: Tournament #129727243, $1.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (800/1600) - 2008/12/26 22:53:18 ET
Table '129727243 5' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 6: 808Joey (35835 in chips)
Seat 8: snowocean (31665 in chips)
808Joey: posts the ante 75
snowocean: posts the ante 75
808Joey: posts small blind 800
snowocean: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to snowocean [6s Jh]
808Joey: calls 800
snowocean: checks
*** FLOP *** [Jc 5d 4s]
snowocean: checks
808Joey: bets 1600
snowocean: raises 3200 to 4800
808Joey: raises 29360 to 34160 and is all-in
snowocean: calls 25190 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (4170) returned to 808Joey
*** TURN *** [Jc 5d 4s] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [Jc 5d 4s Qd] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
snowocean: shows [6s Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Fours)
808Joey: shows [Kh 4d] (three of a kind, Fours)
808Joey collected 63330 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 63330 | Rake 0
Board [Jc 5d 4s Qd 4h]
Seat 6: 808Joey (button) (small blind) showed [Kh 4d] and won (63330) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 8: snowocean (big blind) showed [6s Jh] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Fours

Merry Christmas all!!!!

Some people will do the all in ole' every time they get any piece of the flop. Given your read, I don't think you could do anything else but play it as you did.

yeah, it was really frustrating though. I was running pretty good, but the players I encountered were really weak. It was pretty close to wire to wire. I remember I won a decent pot on the bubble that gave me a little more than double the next biggest stack. Naturally I decided it was time to raise every single hand except for the next biggest stacks BB. After a my 4th hand in a row I had a player re-pop me all-in......too bad for him I actually had AdKd and had his A7o crushed. Just one of those tournaments where whenever I got any resistance I usually had the goods......I think by the bubble I had won over 90% of my hands that made it to showdown, and won around 90% of all hands I voluntarily put money into(about 25% total). Finally get heads up and get my money in good to lose.....oh well.

Was this 6-max? If not, I suspect 25% VPIP is possibly a bit high. At least I know in the NLHE events I run deepest in, my VPIP tends be more like 18-20%, but that my aggression factor is high (if I VPIP, I'm almost never flat calling)

Interested in others' thoughts on that.