Another Final Table, Sort of....

I played in a multi table qualifier tournament last night. There were only 45 people in the tournament. The top five got a ticket to a $50+4 tournament. I finished third. I know some people who think any tournament with more than one table is a multi table and and some people who say if it doesn't have at least 100 people in it then it shouldn't really count as a final table at for a Multi, but more of a SNG. Either way, I'll let you make up your mind.

I played pretty well. I picked up a few hands early, doubling up with KK to about 3,100 chips (1,500 to start with) and then I pretty much increased incrementally from there. The hand that really set me and allowed me to cruise into the money was this: I pick up AA two off the big blind and raise it to $300. It gets folded around to the big blind who calls. The flop comes 5-A-5. He checks, I check. The turn is a 10. He bets $2,000. I go all in. He calls and flips over A-Q. That doubled me to a little over $10,000 and I coasted into the money from there.

The "Donk Hand of the Night" was one that I played and got really lucky with. And when I say really lucky, I mean really lucky. I have 10-7 on the button. It gets folded around to me and I raise it up to $300. The small blind, who had about 1/3 of my stack goes all in. I have no idea why I called him, but I did. He had A-J. The flop brought a 7 and the river brought a 10. That put me up to about $6,000.

I also played a $14 +1.50 multi for a ticket to a $100+8 tournament. I busted out 12th. There were only 20 people in the tournament.

PokerRoom has been running a ton of qualifiers to its bigger tournaments lately.

I now have two tickets to $50+4 tournaments. I haven't decided how to use them yet. I plan on playing one of the $50+4 daily tournaments, but I may use the other one on $50+4 SNG.