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Today I played my first tournament on Full Tilt Poker for winning some money.

Boy what a disappointment this was

In this freeroll event, with 961 participants, I finished on the 621st spot.

I’ve started out well, received a few good hands, won some, lose a bit. After 6 or 7 hands I won with trip eights. And won about 600 points, to take me up to the 56th place.
Than a few call’s later I went back to 1800 and made it very difficult for myself to get back up again.

My first tip I’m giving away here, don’t call another players all-in if you’re not sure about your cards.

In my case today, I had a Queen of Spades and Ace Diamonds to start with. I just called to see the flop.
Flop: Queen Hearths and 4,5 Diamonds, giving me the highest pair on the table. Raised 80, twice the big blind, 3 players left.
Turn: 6 Diamonds, 3rd diamond on the bord, 4th for me in total with ma Ace.
First player goes all-in 2nd player folds, my turn now. I was pretty sure he had a flush now, but I had top pair and highest diamond, but still needed 1 more diamond.
I was counting my outs to still win, and came out on max 7 outs, all the diamonds left in the game.
But I never calculated the diamonds that other players could have received. So if I was lucky I had 7 outs, but thinking afterwards I probably would have had only 3 outs at max.
So I’ve made a very bad call here, costing me almost 1400 in total. Leaving me just around 350 points to play with.

When you this low you only play with the best cards you can get. SO when I received my Queen and King of Spades I went all-in for my remaining 235 points. Everybody folds except 1 player, 4 and 9 of hearths. Flop wasn’t good, but neither I nor he paired. The turn paired my opponent with a 4. Only the river left. I had 6 outs to beat him but he also paired his 9 which left me behind with nothing. A bit unlucky, maybe a bad beat I received, but for him it was an easy call as he had enough money left, even iif he lost. I would have done the same.

Before the tournament started I’ve set myself a goal to end up with the last 500 players, too bad I didn’t make it that far.
But I’ve learned a valuable lesson today that I’ll be remembering in the next tournaments.

Better luck next time.

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