ITM finish in the $2,500 tourney

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Joe Czech Republic. Jul 04 2008 00:55. Posts 5987

So today I accomplished one thing for the first time - I finished in the money in a big live tournament - the Venetian's $2,500 deepstacked NLHE event with a prize pool of about $661k.

Starting day 2 as one of the shortest stacks with 38 left I managed to sneak into the top 27 who made the money. I ended up 25th for a prize thats only slightly bigger than the buyin - $3,325. That means I made a nice profit of $815 after about 17 hours of play. Nice $48 / hour winrate, yay!

But I actually did have a shot at getting further in the tourney. When the bubble was over I had a chipstack of about 140k and the average was like 220k, not that bad. Unfortunately I lost a big part of it when I flopped AJ8 with TT in the pocket and clearly my opponent hit the flop better (of bluffed me). Then I still had like 85k and was in the BB. SB was even shorter then me with about 78k and when it got folded to him, he decided to push. I look at my A6o and figure I am ahead, so I instacall, he flips over 47o. I wish him 'Good luck' and of course my wish is fullfilled when the board comes 48859. My last hand I lose 22 vs QTs and am out.

I am of course a bit dissapointed because I was only about 2 maybe 3 flips away fom the final table and the big money, but still quite satisfied, because I managed to make the money in a big live tournament with definately not an easy field.

As for other people in the tourney, I was quite surprised that almost noone from the familar faces made it to day 2, the only one I recognized was FrinkX (think it was him), but he busted unfortunately about 2 or 3 places before the bubble.

I hope that this finish was a good sign for the upcoming main event

My day 1 is on Saturday and I am already quite looking forward to it...