Tourney $70 + $5 Ticket 14,396 End 5,631 175 hands MiniFTOPS ME

This is a tough group. They added a lot more pro’s to the session and I managed to last longer than 30 of them, including David Benyamine, Roy Winston, Michael Craig, Steve Zolotow, Erick Lindgren, David Pham, Carlos Mortensen, and Annette_15, to name a few. None showed up at the tables I was at. If you knock one of the pro’s out you get a $70 bounty!! Nice. So I imagine that puts them in situations where players want to get them all-in more than would happen in regular, non-bounty, play.

We started with 7500 chips and blinds were 12 minutes which is twice as long as most SNG’s or Tournaments I play. I played very, very tight early on. At the start of blind level 6 (40/80) my VP was 5, PFR 5, and Afq 67. I played two hands, other than BB’s if they were limped to me. My chip stack was slightly below the 7500 starting (7163). At the start of blind level 10 (11/200) I was up to 10,013 chips and near the chip average. My high point was the start of level 12 (140/280 + 24 ante) with 15,088 chips. I’d loosened up a little by then. Of the 175 hands I had only a very few were really good ones; pocket K’s I had once is the best I had. I had AK three times, 1st time no callers, 2nd time after a fop of Jd 10c 7c I folded to a large bet. The 3rd time was my last hand that is pictured below where I’m taken out by pocket 8’s. It took 3 hours and 25minutes of my time. I don’t think I need to write much more about my play

Players did not drop out quickly. After late registration we had 14,396 players. At break one (approx 55 min after start of play) we were only down to 13,045. Not at all like those inexpensive tourneys I get into that start big and are halved in a matter of minutes. Break 2 we were down to 10,361 and break 3 we were down to 6,917. Still a good way from the 1890 where the 1st payout of a little over $100 takes place.

It was fun and an interesting experience and if I can find a cheap way to get into it again I shall!!

My last hand: