[jdiana86]

Well, the tourney didn't go very well, but there's always next time. 10/30 is very weak, but the cards just didn't go my way. Early on my AQ had top two-pair on the board by the turn and I ran into a flopped set. I should have raised him on the flop and then probably got away from it, but that didn't happen. I re-bought for half the entry fee, and you get half as many chips? Anyways I doubled that up and soon had the chip lead at the table. The following hand came up that I thought of as the turning point:

I had A4o UTG and came in with a standard raise playing 5-handed. I got one caller in front of me who I put on a medium to high pocket pair. The flop was 235 rainbow. He checked to me and I made a pot sized bet to find out what exactly he did have if anything. He sat and thought for AT LEAST 5 minutes before finnally deciding to call. I flipped over my cards before the river by accident because he had taken so long. I thought that the person running the tournament should have done something about the situation, but in the end it's my fault for flipping my cards early. However, the person running the tourney took side with the person who took an obnoxiosly long time to call my bet. It was frustrating because I only had one connection and didn't really know anyone there to back my side of the argument up.

After losing around T700 that hand I was left with around T2400 with the blinds at 200-400...still room to work with. I eventually moved in when I was chipped down to around 1500 or so with A2o, and it was beat by K6o. My only regret is that the re-buy wasn't for more, or I would have made the money.