TOUR 44,290 Won Entry End 6519 Hands 89 $1 Main Event Seat Qual

We started with 2000 chips, Turbo 5 min blinds. Itr took them some 23 minutes to load up the tables and start the tournament.I  made it through the 1st break (about an hour) and overall was satisfied with my play. I didn't make any costly major mistakes. Blinds sneaked up on me faster than I realized after I came back from the break and found my M down to 5 and the blinds with ante's rapidly increasing.

Hand 66. This one I wasn't sure how to play when I met some resistance. I'm the BTN, blinds are 120/240, I have 4870 chips and pocket 10's (10d 10c). Action folds to MP1 w/5960 chips and they open with a bet of 599, rest fold to me and I debate about what I should do. That's about 2 1/2 BB bet. Do they have some really good cards or what? I opt to call, SB & BB fold. Flop 6s 6c 4c. Pairs the board but my 10's still look the best. MP1 bets 960 into the 3708 pot; only about 1/4 the pot. I decide to call one more time. Turn Qh, 1st card that's an overcard to my 10's. This time MP1 goes all-in w/4401 chips. Reluctantly I fold. It probably would have been better if I had folded on his post flop bet and saved myself almost a 1000 chips. I also wonder if I'd raises his bet pre-flop if maybe I could have got him off his hand,.

Not a lot happened after that. I did get pocket A's hand 81 and hand 87 that got my chips count up to 6864 but the blinds had now gone up to 300/600 w/75 ante, so my M was not very good. Hand 89 looked like a chance to pick up some chips. I'm the BTN w/6789 chips and Ad Kd. Action folds to me and I go all-in. SB w/9150 chips calls and the BB is Sitting Out as is UTG. UTG put their last 65 chips in for the Ante and the BB did the same for the Ante & BB.  We now see SB w/Kh Qh, BB w/Kc 9s, and UTG w/7c 5d; not a bad pre-flop situation for my AKs.  The following picture shows you how it played out.

As you can see the worse starting hand ended up the best w/a FH and the SB ended up with a flush that took me out. That's poker. If the SB hadn't called my all-in which I feel was pretty gutsy on his part with just KQs and would have cost him 2/3rds of his chips if I had won, I'd have only won  260 chips from the other two players who were blinding out.

As I said I felt pretty good about my play overall and I needed to pay closer attention to my chip stack in relation to the blinds then I did, so I don't get caught by surprise when my M is hitting 5. My chip count was above average but that wasn't good enough at that point in the session.