My $35,000 Freeroll Experience

This was a second chance for me to be qualified for the raketherake's monthly promo,
a $35,000 Freeroll for earning 500 full tilt points in 1 month. 1st time i got qualified
was that i only needed 1 point... i never cash on that one.

but today, after a long wait... finally we started the tourney with a couple of sitouts.
i guess those guys have enough BR goin' for them to forget such a tourney. anyways,
i played tight for the whole session... folding a lot of good hands out of position. stacks
of mine is like a heartbeat goin' up and down. i got to double up to 2600 chips and went
as low as 800. a lot of bully players knowing how tight i played. even if i raised 3x or 5x the
bb... they would reraise me still for a steal. they are always glad i folded. turning point of
my game was when i was in mid position with TT, i raised 3bb and small blind calls. flop
was 379... small blind goes allin in with 1800 and which covered my remaining 780 chips.
i knew he was bluffing to i pushed as well... he showed AKs. my TT held and doubled up
my chips to 2600...

another big win for me was when i had an AQo, blinds are already way up
to 300/600 50 ante. i raised 4bb in mid pos and the button called. flop was like 626... with
less than 2bb left i pushed and prayed for luck... he called with a 77. my jaw dropped seeing
those PP in my face. but with the turn came a Q(a very beautiful Queen!!LOL) my heart
eased down... and an A on the river just calmed me a lot.

from then on i played no hands anymore with 4800 chips with only 10 players left to the money, i folded my way just to get to the cash... i made it of course and will now enjoy those winnings on cash game to build my points again for next month's raketherake $35k FR. i just hope i would make it to the cash again or go even more deeper in the ranks... wish me luck!!!