The tournament had a structure made for TV, and it was comprised of 3 different tournaments awarding points.
The 1st one was the deep stacked one and I finished 9th/32. I won a huge hand with A4s vs A8 and J9 of clubs on a AQ4cc flop when I managed to hold, and from there on I played cautiously, but the blinds were skyrocketing towards the end and I ended up FT bubble boy when I shoved T9s into kings.
The 2nd one was a 4-handed shootout that led into an 8-handed FT. I got unlucky-very lucky, when I ran JJ into AA sb vs bb with 14 bbs, and a jack hit the turn to put me chip leader at my table. I started HU with a 2:1 advantage, but I then failed to finish it off when my 77 lost to A4, and then couldn't make the come back when I lost A5 vs KJ.
I was sitting in 11th place after this event and the goal had been accomplished: I would be playing in the turbo tournament with the best 16. I calculated that I would need to finish at least 6th, but I took pen and paper with me in order to be sure as people started to get eliminated.
Also Full Tilt decided to award €5K to 1st place and a Full Tilt Series buy in to 2nd and 3rd, so that those that were already qualified into the last 8 would take it seriously and not collude. This turbo was more like a Hyper Turbo tournament, and I'm very used to this kind of structure. I played it well and got really lucky when I most needed it. When we were 9 left I had probably the 3rd biggest stack, but only 17bbs, and in our 4-handed table I shoved over the raise of the chip leader, who only had like 22 bbs. He was the loosest player ever and would minraise with at least 50% of his hands, so my AQ was like the nuts. But to my surprise he started agonizing and finally called with KK! I thought I was toast, but on the door I saw the ace that put me chip leader entering the FT.
I had a very interesting spot with 88 in the BB vs a BTN push for half my stack when I was still not guaranteed a place in the HU round that I let pass. I had 50% of the chips in play when we were down to 3 handed, but then I lost A3 vs K9 first, and Q8 vs A7 last, to finish 3rd earning one of the buy ins to next year's Full Tilt Series.
Adding up the 3 events I was standing in 3rd place and would play vs the 6th; Rebe! The Heads Up match was quite turbo and after going back and forth with no big pots I had a slight 6:4 advantage. I got pocket tens on the button and min raised and Rebe shoved with KT. I obviously called but grimaced when the fist card out of the deck was a king. I couldn't recover.
I had a great time though and the show will probably air on TV in 6 months time or so. I think I did my part well, both on the tables and in the interviews, and hopefully someone will notice and give me the Pro contract that I'm looking for ;-)!
The only bad part is that I hate losing and I really wanted to go all the way! And I also wanted to play that semifinal vs Leo Margets: it would have been a fun one! Huge congrats to her though! She's proved once again that she's one hell of a good player!
Now I just have to finish the SNE thing...33k vpps to go!
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