Saturday I played a PS 1983 person tourney and ended up 41st.

I played a really great game considering that I lost 500 chips in the first level.

I made some really good plays, working the table well.

I stayed pretty aggressive but a little tighter than usual because the table was also very aggressive.

A few good plays:

Limp with 33, flop is Q22, I check it gets bet and called, and I check raise it.

Limp in with AQ with a lot of desperate short-stacks in the pot after raising 3 hands in a row and get to catch a short stack going all-in with AJ - I do the same thing against AT (AJ rivered a J though.

After spending most of the tourney in the top 10-20, I build up to 120,000 makeing me the CL at the table with 1k/3k blinds. I had just limp/check-raised all-in with 99 earlier, then called an all-in with JTs (good odds) and busted a short-stack, raised from the BB with JJ and took a pot ucontested.

It folds to me in the SB, I bet 12k with A5o. The BB comes over the top like he had done my last few raises. I have him covered by about 10k.

I think he would make this move with a lot of face cards so I push him all-in, he calls with AQ, and as the button said "what a moron".

One second of lost focus, not thinking about conserving my strong postion really hosed me. I would have still had about 33x the BB if I had folded.

I was able to fight my way back to 30k, but then folded AJs to a raise that would have tripled me up - and got no action on my other nice hands.

Any tricks to keeping focused in these huge tournaments?

No it wasnt play money, it was a buck game, first was around $430.

Money doesnt matter though, i have the same problem in the 10+1s too.

You were ghosting me man.

The problem is, no matter how badly I play, I know you have done worse.

HA HA HA, that is a good one!