[mrmuzeman]

The 1st hour


Ok my gameplan was to play super tight in the first two hours and straight by the book. No special plays, stealing or sneaking around. I was mucking anything other than a pocket pair or AK, AQ unless I caught a nice suited connector such as 76s and the position and price was right. The way I saw it you can only get knocked out a long tourney near the beginning and you certainly cant get anywhere even near winning it. I wanted to see how the other players were playing and form an opinion on whether they were tight/loose to help dictate my play later. Also the blinds are so small they are not even worth stealing. As I sat I calculated that even if I folded every single hand in the first 2 hours I would still have over 9K of my original 10K starting chips (as in a live tourney you will see 20-30 hands per hour).

To be honest during the 1st hour I can hardly remember playing a thing. I think I limped in with pocket 4s at one point! Tony Jones doubled through with some impressive play hitting a set of 3s against a scandy holding KK during the first hour and was chip leader with around 20K at 1 hour completed and got a special chip leader t-shirt he had to wear! I liked the way he played the hand calling a practical all in after the whole board was out (which was a moderately scary board) and his play went up in my estimations from that. The general play was tight with a lot of raise it and take it going on. I noticed the Scandy player directly to my left was in a lot of pots though and playing well increasing his stack steadily. I had him down as a very loose but good player from this.