Played my first tournament for about 6 months last night. I'm on a new start-up site and there wasn't many cash tables running so I decided to play in their $600 guaranteed freeroll. Then when it started I remembered I hate tournaments, and I'm really bad at them, so decided to sit out.
About 1.5hrs or so later I come back to find I'm still in, with an ok amount of chips, I go allin in LP with J9s, lose, have about 170 in chips left, go allin again with a suited ace and double up, again with a pocket pair right after and then another hand I've forgot. Had doubled up a few times now and was at about half the average chips.
Now I had some chips to play I decided I'd give it a go, still about 60 players remaining (about 100 started) so I played real ABC poker and made it to the final table.
Well, I ended up getting heads-up and he had about a 2:3 chip lead, but he was pretty awful and even with my extremely limited HU experience I knew I could take him. Eventually I win a few pots and I have about 100k to his 30k... then the client crashes, whole computer freezes up and I have to restart (before I restarted I saw myself get dealt KK as he raised...) anyway by the time I get back on I now have under 30k with the blinds pretty big, I pick a hand with top pair and move in.. he calls with Q high.. river brings a fourth heart to the board and I'm out.
Seriously gay, I got $114 for 2nd and first was $174, it's not about the extra $60 it's the fact that he was a complete donkey and won, I can't stand that.
Also a lot of the cash game players were railing the final table and now they know I'm final table material it might scare them off from sitting in cash with me :/
Annyhoo, in other news I finally gave in and became 'one of those'.. and bought an ipod.
It's pretty sweet and I was surprised I was allowed to get the engraving of "if i paid for music... i couldn't afford an ipod", albeit it arrived with a "don't steal music." sticker over it.
I toyed with a few other engravings... such as a "finger A minor" guitar chord, and some arabic writing with "bomb" being the only readable word, but I might have some trouble in airports and the like with those..
Turned it into an external drive and installed SharePod so I can transfer music to/from using any computer, put in CDex for CD ripping and a lightweight bittorrent client, completely self sufficient and portable law breaker.
Wow, when you select a category, and then decide to not use a category, you can't, 'None' disappears as an option, and have to select one of your categories, that's no good.