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After a weekend where nothin’ seemed to go my way, except this nice little hand and a $32 qualifier that resulted in a seat for Sundays $250.000 guaranteed, I was ready to make up for my $1500 loss by ofcourse finishin 1st in the 800 man field and thereby take down the whoping $55.000 in first price.

I’ve experimented a bit with tours lately and I’m starting feel comfortable with the somewhat different strategy that has to be applied in tournaments (read: a lot of pre flop decissions and not a whole lot of post flop play:-) I have yet to enter the end game with a big stack, but hey, a lot of chips is overrated as i managed to survive with a very small stack all the way from 150 players left to 18 (at no point I had a stack above 10 bb).

The fairy tale though ended with 18 players left as I pushed in my 6 bb for a total of 29.140 w. JQ from the button and got called by a bigstack in the bb w. A2 - see how the hand turned out here

All in all I’m satisfied though, due to me being short stack for the last 2 hours and the fact that I managed to end the weekend with a profit of $500 instead of a $1500 loss!

One thing I’ve learned, is that tournament poker is all about pot odds and if there’s someone playing by them, it’s our very own Gus Hansen - just chack out this clip where he calls Anotonio Esfandiari’s allin with a somewhat mediocre hlding:

Come join me at NOIQ poker and join me in the soft tournaments in there - I know, I’ll be playing them again!