This was in one of those Party Point freerolls, where you spend your Party Points to enter and the top 15 get paid. Every other MTT I've entered I've been knocked out pretty early, so getting this deep was a new experience for me. There were many times when I was getting close to that "Red Zone" with the blinds increasing, but it seemed that each time I got a hand that held up and more often than not doubled me up - catching a set with 99 and 66, getting 4 callers on a 5xBB raise with KK, pushing on the flop, and having the pair hold up.

This was definitely the hand of the tournament for me -

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (9 handed)

UTG (t38651)
UTG+1 (t22634)
MP1 (t11562)
MP2 (t32324)
MP3 (t30501)
CO (t25091)
Button (t25073)
SB (t4760)
Hero (t7112)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
3 folds, MP2 raises to t3100, 1 fold, CO calls [t25091] , Button calls [t25073] , 1 fold, Hero calls [t7112] t800, MP2 calls t21991.

Aces in the BB and two people push in front of me?? What more could a guy ask for? I only wish I had a bigger stack here.

Flop: (t26291) , , (4 players)

I've never been happier to see an Ace hit the board.

Turn: (t26291) (4 players)

River: (t26291) (4 players)

Final Pot: t26291

Results in white below
Hero has Ac As (three of a kind, aces).
MP2 has Kd Ad (one pair, aces).
CO has 7c 7s (one pair, sevens).
Button has Tc Ts (one pair, tens).
Outcome: Hero wins t26291


Then, a little while later came this hand. This one really crippled me, as I ran QQ into 33 that hit their set -

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1000 (9 handed)

BB (t20009)
UTG (t2285)
UTG+1 (t226507)
MP1 (t16420)
MP2 (t17303)
MP3 (t21718)
CO (t20824)
Button (t10197)
Hero (t26580)

Preflop: Hero is SB with , .
3 folds, MP2 calls t1000, 3 folds, Hero raises to t4000, 1 fold, MP2 calls t3000.

Flop: (t9000) , , (2 players)
Hero bets t15000, MP2 calls [t13303] .

Turn: (t24000) (2 players)

River: (t24000) (2 players)

Final Pot: t24000

Results in white below:
MP2 has 3s 3d (full house, threes full of eights).
Hero has Qs Qc (two pair, queens and eights).
Outcome: MP2 wins t15000. Hero wins t9000.


I held on for a little while longer, but finally exited the tourney when my AJ ran into AQ and lost.

congrats on going deep.

just curious... what place did the money start at?