It’s been quite a while since I played a multitable tournament, so I figured I’d do that tonight instead of my usual three tabling the 1/2 games somewhere. It was mostly because I don’t have any pending bonuses anywhere right now. I figured I’d play for an hour or so, get knocked out, and stop. I kinda wish I was right, because playing for 4 hours, beating out 595 players, and only coming in 6th for $84 was a bit disappointing. Still, $84 on $5.50 isn’t bad. I don’t really have much in the way of interesting hands to talk about, except the first two hands of the tournament.

The very first hand, I get dealt A4o in the big blind. UTG raises the minimum, a few people call, as do I. The flop is a wonderful 235. I don’t remember exactly how the rest of the hand played out, but I took down a pretty decent pot on it. Next hand, I get dealt KK in the small blind. There’s a raise and a call before me, so I reraise. The original raiser goes all in (on the second hand of the tournament – no rebuys), and I call. He turns over KJ. The flop is a scary AQx, but no ten hits the board, and I end up with around 5000 chips on my starting 1500 after two hands.

I would stay at around 5000 for the next two and half hours or so, before finally getting some hands and building my stack up. I made the final table in third place with $149k, but just couldn’t hit a flop with my AK and AQ, and had to fold JJ to a bad board. I lost most of my chips when I had 88 somewhat shortstacked and it ran into QQ. Very next hand, my A3 ran into AQ, and I was out in 6th. Not bad for my first tournament in months, though.

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