I played in Pendleton on Friday the 19th. There were 339 players. I zipped along quite nicely until after the dinner break. I knew my table well. We only had a total of 3 players knocked out & replaced by other players and I felt I had a good handle on them as well. I was just above the chip average and there were only 81 players left. 36 players would get money.
Then . . . my table breaks. This means we are down on 72 players. Unfortunately, total misery and card deadness ensues. I have absolutely no playable hands at the new table. The best thing I see is A-3 and I can't play it because someone raises before me. I am not having fun any more. The only good thing going on is there are fewer and fewer players. It seems that someone gets knocked out every other minute.
After less than 30 minutes this table breaks also - down to 63 players. Again, I am totally lost. I'm not there long enough to get to know anybody because I simply run out of chips. When my first table broke I had about 35 big blinds and by the time I got to the last table I had less than half of that because the antes were eating all my chips and I seriously had no playable hands. None. When I saw KJ it looked like AA to me and I shoved all in with only about 12 big blinds remaining. Naturally the guy to my immediate left actually did have AA and I was gone in about 60th place.
One of these days I will get a seat that's at the final table and I will never have to move. Wouldn't that be heaven?
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That is a really bad part about tournaments, particularly big ones. Nothing like sitting at the "rock" table where the chips just get moved around then moving to the "action" table where 10 players have been eliminated, leaving their chips among some huge stacks. That happened to me last time at Pendleton. I am studying how to play when you go card dead. it is worth googling. Sometimes you just have to forget about which cards you have and just play your stack or your position.
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