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After last Friday’s tournament I managed to get myself in the money once again.
Today I finished on the 21st position, not as good as last time when I nearly missed the final table, but I had a good game and great fun.

If you know that after 20 minutes of the tournament I only had about 450 chips left from my initial 1500, I made a great comeback. The last 2 hours I steadily played in the top 10 with a huge amount of chips. 4th place and 78000 Chips is the highest stack I had at one time. Then I made an all in call from a player for 25000 chips with my pocket Queens. He showed pocket Jacks. I was in the lead, also after the flop, but the turn gave him trips and me only 2 outs. The river sealed his win. But I still was a top 10 player after this minor loss.

Again as last time, with the money places in sight, people where waiting endlessly to make their decision for calling or folding. So it took a while before we reached the last 27 players, with me at the 11th place at that time. After the 3rd break I immediately got pocket jacks and went all in, hoping somebody called for a showdown, but they all folded.

A few more hands passed by until somebody went all in again. I felt this was the time to call for an all or nothing with my AJ suited, 52000 chips at stake. But I could triple this amount as another player called also. He showed AJ off suit. The player that went all in showed pocket Queens.
The flop didn’t help me or the other player, not even for a flush draw. The turn was a 10 and gave us a little shot for a straight. About 8 outs left, 9’s or Aces would save us from losing against pocket Queens. The river showed a 4 of clubs so game over for me and the other player, but the winner did took his place at the number 1 spot in the tournament with a bit more than 200.000 chips.

Game over for today, but I’m pretty proud about my game today, played well, didn’t make too much mistakes and definitely am improving my reading other people cards ability.

Oh yeah, before I forget, there’s one hand I can’t forget to mention here.
I received pocket aces and made a good raise on the button. The big blind went all in after this to get called by another player. My turn again. Instead of calling I raised the other calling player to go all in also to try and get the most out of the pot. He just called on the last moment.
Showdown time: my AA against 89 suited and the big blind’s pocket Aces!!!
Luckily me and the big blind splitted the pot after the river. I would hate to see me lose against 89 suited with pocket Aces.

Yesterday I also played in the tournament, also pretty good, but I just made one bad call. With KJ suited against pocket Queens. I lost and ended on the 129th place. Not bad, but as from now I’m always aiming for a spot in the Top 100, nothing less than that.

So in one week time I ended up in the money 2 times, giving me a total of $4 to play with for real, thank you Full Tilt!

How about you? Did you start with these freeroll tournaments also? Any luck?

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