Made the final table at the Hard Rock today, 4th out of about 185. (It was my 2nd final table in the past month.) I particularly like the Monday 11 a.m. game because it's a low buy-in ($100), but has a good format (3,500 chips/starts at 25-50- blinds, 15 minute levels). The players are friendly and it's a congenial atmosphere that's fun to play. It's a very mixed bag of opponents from one guy at my table who I don't think ever played before (and yes, of course he made it to the final table), several young professionals who must be ditching work (like me), some older guys who have seen it all, and very few women....I only saw one other woman in this tournament.
At my starting table, everyone was very tight, and raise/fold was how it went for the first hour or so. As the blinds increased, things loosened up. I'm always surprised at how the guy with the huge stack of chips who looks like a sure thing for the final table generally ends up gambling too much and losing well before the real action starts.
I didn't have particularly great cards, and I did have a few times when I got very lucky (like when all I had was enough to cover my blind and my Q8 caught two eights), but generally I'd attribute my success to playing my stack, my position and my opponents and not letting my marginal hands get me down.
2 comments:
Nice job Jann! So what is the payout for 4th place?
Mike, just now saw this. I got $980 on this one and the buy-in, as I remember, was $100.
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