Got 3rd. Top 6 win the gold coins.

Buy-in: 1,000 GC for 2,000 chips.

Prize: 11,700 for third.

You could rebuy once; same ratio. At first break; They let me do something called 'add on' which let me add chips on even though I didn't go bust.

39 players.

I like the tournament style; but it came close a few times; at one point it was 'win this hand, or bust', then I had a decent hand in 5th, decided if I lost that hand, I'd still get a prize, so I went all in. One guy called. I felted him, and survived long enough to watch another player get knocked out. At that point it had been like an hour so I was pretty bored and ready to call it quits so I went all in with A10o get called with KJo, and he makes a jack pair on river card.

I like the tournament style a little better than cash game style, because it means more when you felt them. I can imagine a real tournament at a live game would be a nightmare to navigate. I hear they get hundreds of people per event. That would be such an obnoxiously long time to play poker that I don't think live tournaments are in my future, despite me liking the style more.

I have needs; cigarettes; coffee...and flipping between tabs watching Doug Polk, Blackrain79, and Brad Owen videos.