My first ITM finishes

[Gene2x]

#20 out of 1,400 in free roll on PP last night ($20) and #50 today out of 4,000 players (won $75) for $5 entry (also on PP). The second tournament actually had 1,500 entrants but there were almost 3,000 rebuys (lol!).

[KneeCo]

Grats on the cashes!

Just to clear things up, you didn't play the rebuy like a freezeout did you?
i.e. you did take the add-on at the very least?

I would assume with a 20$ BR atm he wouldnt have took the Rebuy.

Looking at it from this perspective.

Scenario 1, $10 for 1 tournament after the first hour.
Scenario 2, $10 for 2 tournaments after the first hour.

Which is he more likely to land ITM?

I understand Rebuy theory(a little) as well as addons, but seeing how his BR is limited, i think you throw those out the window and take two at bats, generally a good deal of poker left to play after the first hour.

[Gene2x]

On the rebuy tournament, I got knocked back to $900 (from about $2,500) with KK against a loose player who played any A from any position (he later became one of the chip leaders by constantly going all-in with any A- I think at one point he had over $200,000 before losing it all in the late stages of the tournament).

I decided to re-buy for $5 ($1,000 chips) so if I doubled up I would be slightly ahead of the average stack (avg was about $3,500 at the time) instead of waiting 10 mins for the add-on option to become available ($1,500 chips for $5).

I busted out in the SB when it was folded around to me and I raised the BB 4x with AJs. He had K3s. After the flop, the pot was about equal to my stack so I pushed. He caught a 3 on the flop and called and it held up.

If you're making a pot sized bet with your stack hes going to call you most of the time, you should definitely push it all in pre flop..

Other than that, congrats. Personally I have a lot of trouble making the money in tournaments, still waiting for that big win /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Gene2x]

Thanks...

As for the 4x raise vs pushing: I actually wanted him to call as I my AJs was bound to be better than a random hand... I needed to double as my M was only around 8. If my M would have been 6 or less, then I would have gone all in.