…did I survive during my 11th tournament, a 90 player sng with a $2+.2 buy-in. First I lost a big pot against what I thought was a steamer, and then I got eliminated because I think I was steaming.

So what happened exactly? Well, in the very first hand of the tournament, the player on my left had to face a harsh bad beat. Then the second hand is played:

The same guy immediately reraises the next hand and I know he will push on almost every flop. So I kinda already decide to call when I hit my 5 of course, but also on this kind of flop, with a paired board. A steamer would never push here if he has hit a set of Aces. But he actually had another good hand… Some hands later I get AK:

Kinda frustrated by my earlier beat and the retarded reraise on the button I immediately shove all-in. It happens to be a coinflip situation but I don’t hit my ace or king, finishing in 82nd place. Better next time.

How nice it was to cash in the first tourney, how disappointing my second one was. I finished in 55th place without a lot of exciting moments…

My ‘carddead period’ was located right in the beginning of the tournament this time. I saw a lot of crazy moves though during this period, probably caused by the low buy-in. When I díd wake up with a decent hand, it was because of the same reason I didn’t build up a big stack. I got AQ offsuit two times and raised a decent amount (3-4 times the BB), but got a lot of callers anyway. I didn’t flop anything and it’s hard to take the pot with a continuation bet in those spots with all the multiway action. So I guess the lesson learned is that you’ll have to play VERY tight aggressive during those first levels (I’ll post some other tips now and then here).

I ended up with 700 chips during the third blind level (20/40) when I got pocket Jacks:

So I got eliminated in a coinflip situation, better next time I guess!