100k Guaranteed Tournament!

Well, Yesterday I won a sattelite into the 100k guaranteed tourney on Prima. $50 entry, but it also has re-buys. I had no intention of re-buying though. I don't have a ton of time to go through the whole tournament. But I ended up more dissapointed than I probably should be.

I finished 103rd. Out of 1100, and 130 got paid. But I was in the bottom rung of the payout structure, and I took a brutal beat to get there.

I was pretty short stacked with 11k chips and blinds at 1k/2k when I picked up QQ in the BB and there was just one early position limper. So I pushed the rest of my stack into the middle. His cards flip up and he's got 33 against my QQ. Flop is all blanks, turn is another, but the river is the dreaded 2 outer. The 3! I was so pissed off. Because if I win that, I am back up to 22k, and I have at least a few more chances to double up and make a run. But instead I got out 103rd, just 3 spots from another jump in the money, when some clown calls 9k more with 33!! Which is what I wanted, but come on... what is he beating there? Not a whole lot!

Granted, I had to get lucky a time or two myself to get to that point, but it doesn't make it any better. At least when I got lucky, it's cause I was like a 45/55 underdog. Not 95/5 with one card coming! It's pretty frustrating going out like that, but at least I know I played well.

I just really wanted to make a run for the final table, because even 10th got over 1k, and first got over 27k. I might not have caught them, but I have done it in the past, so I know it's possible.

On another note. My performance in the sattelite was even better. With the bubble being at 30th, and 1 more to be eliminated before we all won our seats... I had 64k in chips, and the guy in 2nd had 37k. Boy do I wish it was always that easy. But this big tournament played a big more aggressive and it was much harder to find spots to steal blinds with lots of shortstacks re-raising all-in a lot. Not to mention, I had absolutely no cards to play for at least the last hour. I somehow got just enough to stay alive, but if you give me just a few more good hands, I could have been a force. But getting 93 every blind really hurt.

But again, the main point is that I am playing well again in the MTT's and hopefully I can hit a big cash before too long.