Last night I played in my second multi-table tournament online. It was a $5 turbo rebuy tournament. The blinds raised, I think every 5 minutes or so. And guess what? I made the final table. And guess what else? I bounced on the bubble! Out of 125 entries, I came in eigth, missing the money by 1 place. I'm still really upset about that final hand. I had just paid the blinds (the blinds were 6000-12000 at that point, more than half my stack), and I get dealt AK offsuit. My mistake was in pushing in here when literally the small stack at the table (surprisingly not me) would be blinded out on the next hand. I got really unlucky to lose the hand though. The big blind had a pair of twos, and caught a set on the flop. It was just so frustrating to play for two hours just to get bounced on the bubble like that.

However, other than that final hand, I think I played some fairly mistake free poker. I was the chip leader for a good half-hour in the middle of the tournament, but a run of bad cards just as the small stacks started moving in on every hand let others catch up. In the end I think it was worth the $15 I spent on the tournament. I definitely learned a lot, and had some fun outplaying 117 other people.