The Format
1. 283 Players today
2. 11 Players per table
2. $2500 chips to start
3. 15 Minute Blinds - $25/$50, $50/$100, $75/$150, $100/$200, $200/$400, $300/$600, $400/$800, $500/$1000, $1000/$2000, $2000/$4000
4. Alternates brought in after someone is knocked out no matter what the blind level
The tourney
I started analyzing the players at the table, I don't play tourneys at this place that much mostly just limit games, so I didn't recognize anyone. Naturally they all start to chatter about different things and I start to realize who I should watch for.
I folded for most of the first round because I didn't pick up any hands that weren't utter garbage, and the guy sitting directly to my left raised to $800 on the first hand, he was drunk or something he kept falling asleep and leaning in his seat (FISH).
Early on I noticed that there was very little to no raising it was a limp fest, and people are showing down AA, KK, AK, and other hands that would warrant a raise, but no one is raising.
Key Hand #1:
I am dealt
on the Button, and the player in seat 5 had limped into the pot, the blinds were $50/$100 I raise to 4x the BB, and everyone folds except her, she just calls. At this point for some reason I feel I need to make a set to win, she had only played strong hands in the past, so the flop comes 
(2 clubs), she bets $500, I think for a few seconds and I go over the top of her all-in for another $1950 or so, she thinks for a few and agonizes when she says call and shows 
, my 9's hold up whew!After that hand I won a few pots using continuation bets, and I had about $6500 chips which was definitely healthy at that point in the tournament.
Key Hand #2
With the blinds sitting at $100/$200 I have played tight and avoided trouble, and I have built credit at the table. I am dealt
in the Cutoff seat, I raise to $600 there were 3 limpers before my raise, every says "crap" and folds except the player directly to my right, he just called. The flop comes 
, the player to my left checks I bet $600 he CALLS!!!!, the next card is a 
, he checks I ask him how much he has left and I see he has me covered, I consider pushing him all-in, but I decide against it because from the hands he played before he was content checking the best hand down to the river, but he would call any bet put before him most of the time. If my King held up I would make over $1800, so the hand was checked to the river and he flips over 
for a split pot.Then I start to notice that the blinds seem to be creeping up on me, I am sitting around with about $7000 at this point, but the blinds are now $200/$400 things just moved so fast my M at this point is barely above 10 after all of that. Then it happens we lose 3 players from our table and get 3 new players who had been sitting on the rail (this deep in a tourney that's crazy), so they come in and start playing with a new $2500 chip stack, and we are still 11 handed.
A player who had just sat down goes all in on the first hand they played, and was called by another new player the first players
sutied loses to . The player who won the hand got AA, KK, JJ, and AK all in a row, and won each time, and was the tournament chip leader within 4 hands. Then she starts to raise every hand causing other players to go all-in, at this point I threw away K Q off suit 2 times, K J one time, and A small a few times, these hands just didn't seem playable in a multiway situation for all of my chips.So I am wittled down now, to about $4000, and the blinds arent' getting smaller,
Key Hand #3
I am dealt
off suit in first position, being that I had been folding and I needed to take a chance on accumulating a few chips to stay ahead of the blinds I decide to limp into the pot with it, that way I could get away from the hand if raised (which I assumed was going to happen), there was 1 caller other than me, and the BB just checked. The flop came 8c 6d 3c, the big blind moved all in for $1600 I had him covered, I contemplated calling, but folded because of the person acting after me and the Gap principle. The other player calls and shows Ac 10c, the BB shows Q 6, the turn is 2d, and the river is Jh, I would have won the hand and knocked out 2 players!!!!The next 30 mins to an hour of the tourney saw me folding hands because of all-in bets that weren't even heads up, I would have been the 3rd or 4th person coming into the pot in most cases.
I am now wittled down to less than the starting chip amount, and the blinds are now $300/$600, everyone folds to me I look down at
I convince myself that I probably have the best hand since it's only the SB and BB left, so I push all-in hoping to steal the blinds and buy some much needed time, and I am called by the BB who shows , he makes a on the flop to crush any hopes of winning the hand, and I am eliminated in 132nd place.My Mistakes:
1. Not checking the tournament structure before sitting down to play the tournament.
2. Not adjusting to the tournament structure once I realized what it was.
3. Falling into the table culture, and not staying aggressive pre-flop which is my most comfortable way of playing. I limped into too many pots (a bad habit I have picked up lately).
Summary:
I am sure I made more mistakes than that, and of course I couldn't write everything that happened, but hopefully you get the gist of how I was playing, and can analyze my play and comment. I hope to learn from this experience, and get better from it. Thanks.
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