My first live No Limit Hold'Em result/impression

[trillig]

Over 200 players, I knocked out 16th, they only paid top 10, really had a long run of horrible cards, and had to ALL-IN with K8s and crap flop/turn and then river gave a 2nd all-in trips, had it been an 8 or K I would still be there.
If my suite came I was dead the original ALL-IN had A2 of my suite, seems to be an evil pattern working against me.
This was THE ONLY hand I didn't not win at river the entire tournament, all 5 of them?

It was a lot different from ONLINE NL tournaments, so many many ALL-INs.

Maybe 1 in 5 hands gets played out.

I went ALL-IN about 7 times, this casino had a knockout bounty, and amazingly enough I didn't knockout a single person.

I was knocked out when antes were 300 per hand and 700/1500 blinds.

Some lucky moments included:

Me: QQ, Guy to my right ALL-IN'd with KK and I call, he had overage on me.

Flop had a Q and no improvement for him to river.
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I called an ALL-IN when low on chips with a 22, and guy flipped AJ and neither hit.
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I didn't get called on a few weak ALL-INs with Ax.
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Most importantly:

I had a blast!

Some better cards, and I would have been at final table...

Learned a lot for next time!

-t