As you may recall, I posted here last week for some advice about playing in my first multi-table, rebuy tournament. I played the tournament last night, and I finished 2d! I won $4,500.

I sincerely want to thank this forum. My post for advice last week drew 30 replies. They really helped me to focus and go into the tournament with a good plan for how I wanted to play strategically. I am grateful for the help that I received, and I'm convinced that it contributed to the end result. Thanks again for everything!

Congrats!! As a thank you, you could transfer $50 to the accounts of all the PF 'regulars'.

Any tips? Any strategy you tried to follow? Good job man, not a bad way to start!

awsome!

Congrats Mxp. If you don't mind me asking was this a tourny that was put together with some of your friends or was it at a certain location. I live in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks all for the good wishes.

beavis... Thinking back over the night, I don't feel like I outplayed a lot of people, but I do think that I made a lot of good decisions in terms of what hands to play, how to bet, and probably most importantly, when not to get involved.

I think that my table image really helped me to go deep into the tournament. I was playing tight and showing strong hands. So when the blinds started to get big relative to my stack (i.e., when I had about anywhere from 5-8 big bets), I looked for hands where I was in position and could move all in. Those bets were respected, and I won enough hands uncontested to stay ahead of the rising blinds and play on.

All night, I think that I only got lucky once and made one bad decision. In the lucky hand, I had made it into the money, but had been a dry spell in terms of cards. The blinds were wearing me down, when I was dealt A3o in the BB. Everyone folded to the SB, who had a medium stack, and he just called.

I thought about moving in there, but I was pretty sure that he would have called me, and I wasn't sure that I was ahead of him at this point. So I decided to take the flop, and it came down Q-T-rag. He checked to me, and I figured that the flop had completely missed him. I moved in, and he called immediately, showing T-4. I hit an Ace on the turn and lived on. (I still think it was the right decision to move in because I had to pick a hand and go with it at this point).

The only bad decision I feel I made actually came during the rebuy period. When the blinds were 100-200, a very good player opened the pot from UTG with 500. I had AQs and decided to call, as did one other player.

The flop came down T T Q. The UTG player checked, and I bet out 1500. Before the third player could act, the UTG player immediately declared "I'm all in." The third player folded, and it was up to me to decide what to do.

I put him on this range of hands: AA, KK, ATs, or AQ. All of those would have been consistent with his betting pattern. I folded, thinking that I lose three of those four. He showed me his hand, and sure enough, it was AQ. I felt like I had been punched in the gut and was upset and embarrassed that I had been outplayed.

Other than those hands, there were not a lot of remarkable ones for me. I just seemed to get my money in when I was ahead, and the math held up.

Finally, to respond to E-Train, this was a charity poker tournament held at the Brandywine Country Club near Wilmington, DE. I think they said last night that there will be one of these events a month. If you're interested, try e-mailing "CharityHoldem@aol.com" for information.

BTW, you can earn points in these tournaments towards a free seat in the Delaware Poker Open. I think I almost earned enough to make it last night, and the prize pool for the Delaware Poker Open is going to be over $50,000.

Originally Posted by Girevik

Congrats!! As a thank you, you could transfer $50 to the accounts of all the PF 'regulars'.

Gir... your check's in the mail! LOL

In all seriousness, thanks for your support and advice.