Tour 7884 Freeroll End 1451 121 hands Round 1 Freeroll

Payout: 1-250 Entry

Bad decision on my last hand. I took the player to have different cards than he had and didn't believe his raising push's.

Hand 121: Eight players at table, blinds 60/120. Three are sitting out. I'm BB w/Kd Qc, 18,174 chips within the 250 at this point. UTG+1 limps in w/120 as does MP1, rest fold to me and I check. Flop 7d 5h Qh. I have top pair w/a K kicker. I bet the pot of 360, UTG+1 raises me to 1440, MP1 folds and I re-raise to 2520. UTG+1 has been doing a lot of raising me and most of the time I've been folding, never sure if he could beat me or not, so this time I challenge him. He calls. That leads me to believe I may still have the best hand. I was mainly worried about his having a Q with an Ace kicker. Turn 2s. This time I decide I'm going in big and bet the pot of 5400 and he raises me all-in w/18,814 chips. At this point, though I wouldn't want to, I should have folded. It's unlikely he'd push all-in if he didn't feel he could win. But I call and UTG+1 shows 5s 7s, having hit bottom two pair on the flop. I could still win with a Q or K on the River. River Jh. I'm outta there.

This was an odd session. I 1st built my chip stack due to very poor play on other players part. Then later on, for 69 hands our table had 6 of the 9 players sitting out. It took me awhile to realize this and for a fair amount of time I thought this one player after me was always raising me to give me a hard time, when I now believe he realized before I did that there was only three of us playing and if he could get me and the other player out he'd win the blinds. Once I realized it, I still all too often had terrible cards, that didn't seem worth the risk of the gamble.

Anyway I feel good that I got as far as I did and I hope that last hand was a learning lesson for me. I had built myself a decent stack and if I had handled it carefully I had a good chance to make the 250 which is what I need to do in the Tournaments I've won entry into over the next couple of days where I can win some real $$$ with good play.

The reason I entered this freeroll was for the practice of building a chip stack with a large number of players. In some ways my early chip winning was a bit too easy and I have to be careful not to assume it was due to my grand play. I still need to be quite careful what I play and to have patience to make it to the end.