Ok I was playing just a generic $3.30 ($1000 guaranteed) tournament last night on Full Tilt Poker when I should have been sleeping. I was just clocking some time on a cash table and said, what the heck, I'll just enter a cheap touranment just in case I get some really good cards.
Well, I played well and ran good so I ended up in the money. At that point, instead of playing conservatively I played suicidal right after the money bubble because I wanted to go to sleep. Well, this worked in the opposite way... I placed second in the tourney.
I knocked out a couple of people in the process and had a table chip lead. But I was super aggressive - going all in against players trying to make the the final table so they avoided me to a point. It worked so well I sailed into the final table while the other players had to hang on to diminishing chip stacks.
I could have won it had I played a little smarter with 3 people left, I doubled up the eventual winner a couple of times, but I was really really tired and wanted to sleep! And I ran into Aces on the final hand, but I'm pretty happy with a $160 win for a $3.30 entry.
N.B. It may seem magical to read how " lucky" I am in these posts, but you must consider I am a super-experienced player. I just haven't devoted my life to being a "rounder". If you start out and can't make a final table twice in two days it's understandable. I didn't either a few years ago. But I have learned how to do it. Even with a low buy-in, in both tournaments the player field was about 300 people, not a sit&go of one table, so it wasn't that easy either.
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