First Big Win!
Just had my first big tournament win yesterday. It was a small buy-in...$5+1 Multi-Table Tournament. 1700+ entries though... and the prize pool breakdown was something like this... 1st-$1820 2nd-$977 3rd-$735 4th-$640 5th-$550 (estimates)... Well Guess what place I got?
FIRST!!
I couldn't believe it. I just wanted to try and make a little profit, I mean I had every intention of trying to win it, but with 1700 people I figured I was a long shot... Well I just trucked along until I hit the money at 180th... slowly built up from then on and people were dropping out fairly quickly at this point. Every bad hand I folded I was moving up in the money. We got down to about 3 table and my stack was getting pretty big. Catching decent cards at good times and stealing some hefty blinds by this point. I got the chip lead with about 20 left... sat on that for awhile when someone who had about half my stack went all in and gave me a huge hit... I was now halved... still above average, but barely now. Battled back a little bit, but by the time we hit the final table I only had 95,000 with the big stack having around 400,000. I had to double up with 11 left just to get to where I was. We hit the final table and I was really excited... now every place I can move up I get around an extra $100... which is huge for me, since the most I ever won has been $80 at once.
I sat tight and folded quite a few hands... 9 people left and nobody wanted to gamble for awhile, blinds just kept getting passed around. One player finally busted, so I moved up a little, but my stack eventually got down around 40,000 when I got 10-10. I moved all-in and got called by one of the bigger stacks who had something like AJ... I doubled up and was back up to 90,000 or so. About 2 hands later I got 10-10 again...Moved it all-in one more time, and got called by the same player... Doubled up Again!! Now I was feeling like I could really do a little damage...Players slowly busted out with dwindling stacks and I was in the Top 3 in chips now. 4th place was about 200,000 below us in the top 3. Figured I'd wait for a good spot to play, cause I was making money by staying out of it.
Finally made it down to 3 players and I caught KK and took the chip lead with around 750,000... other players had around 350,000 each. Eventually one other player was eliminated and I'm guaranteed $900. I can't even believe it... I figured with my short stack at the final table that I would be happy with the $180. Heads up I slowly built up my chip lead, and then lost it momentarily. Got it back by staying aggressive with lots of raises... Then I get 99. Flop comes out with another 9... I bet small, get re-raised so I go all-in. He calls with 9-10 and hits 2 pair to my set. I have a massive lead now with 1.5mil to his 100k. He goes all-in next hand, and I wake up with AK. Flop comes Q-4-7 turn a J and river another 4. He has A8 and my King kicker wins the tournament.
$1800 added to my account, and I don't know what to do but laugh. I can't believe I came back from 40k at the final table to win this thing... or even that I got through 1700 to get to that final table. Just shows that you are never out of it, just make the most of the cards you get and above all, don't do anything stupid.
FIRST!!
I couldn't believe it. I just wanted to try and make a little profit, I mean I had every intention of trying to win it, but with 1700 people I figured I was a long shot... Well I just trucked along until I hit the money at 180th... slowly built up from then on and people were dropping out fairly quickly at this point. Every bad hand I folded I was moving up in the money. We got down to about 3 table and my stack was getting pretty big. Catching decent cards at good times and stealing some hefty blinds by this point. I got the chip lead with about 20 left... sat on that for awhile when someone who had about half my stack went all in and gave me a huge hit... I was now halved... still above average, but barely now. Battled back a little bit, but by the time we hit the final table I only had 95,000 with the big stack having around 400,000. I had to double up with 11 left just to get to where I was. We hit the final table and I was really excited... now every place I can move up I get around an extra $100... which is huge for me, since the most I ever won has been $80 at once.
I sat tight and folded quite a few hands... 9 people left and nobody wanted to gamble for awhile, blinds just kept getting passed around. One player finally busted, so I moved up a little, but my stack eventually got down around 40,000 when I got 10-10. I moved all-in and got called by one of the bigger stacks who had something like AJ... I doubled up and was back up to 90,000 or so. About 2 hands later I got 10-10 again...Moved it all-in one more time, and got called by the same player... Doubled up Again!! Now I was feeling like I could really do a little damage...Players slowly busted out with dwindling stacks and I was in the Top 3 in chips now. 4th place was about 200,000 below us in the top 3. Figured I'd wait for a good spot to play, cause I was making money by staying out of it.
Finally made it down to 3 players and I caught KK and took the chip lead with around 750,000... other players had around 350,000 each. Eventually one other player was eliminated and I'm guaranteed $900. I can't even believe it... I figured with my short stack at the final table that I would be happy with the $180. Heads up I slowly built up my chip lead, and then lost it momentarily. Got it back by staying aggressive with lots of raises... Then I get 99. Flop comes out with another 9... I bet small, get re-raised so I go all-in. He calls with 9-10 and hits 2 pair to my set. I have a massive lead now with 1.5mil to his 100k. He goes all-in next hand, and I wake up with AK. Flop comes Q-4-7 turn a J and river another 4. He has A8 and my King kicker wins the tournament.
$1800 added to my account, and I don't know what to do but laugh. I can't believe I came back from 40k at the final table to win this thing... or even that I got through 1700 to get to that final table. Just shows that you are never out of it, just make the most of the cards you get and above all, don't do anything stupid.
posted by Kurt at 9:27 AM
2 Comments:
Congrats man... that's a nice tourney to take down and a very nice payout if you ask me! Hopefully I'll win one of those someday.
Very Nice!
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