Full Tilt Day 1 (continued)

Not to be deterred from being brutally (yes I'm way exaggerating), two outed in my first venture into Full Tilt, I decided to press on. I played about an hour of $25NL and then entered a $24+$2 MTT. The cash game was uneventful and I didn't get many playable hands. The tournament was a different story.

The tournament started at 10pm (EST) and had 1,600+ players. I got a sick run of cards early and built my stack up to 8,500 (at which I was the overall chip leader) due to this hand:

Seat 1: BRA51 (1,460)
Seat 2: sconnery1 (1,145)
Seat 3: jdyer4 (2,235)
Seat 4: wideawakeinsd (1,855), is sitting out
Seat 5: Colebass (1,715)
Seat 6: soccer17 (855)
Seat 7: HERO (4,605)
Seat 8: Dyzalot (1,005)
Seat 9: MLW113 (2,580)
jdyer4 posts the small blind of 25
wideawakeinsd posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Kc Kh]
Colebass raises to 100
HERO raises to 350
MLW113 calls 350
sconnery1 raises to 1,145, and is all in
HERO calls 795
MLW113 calls 795
*** FLOP *** [Ah Ts Kd]
HERO bets 1,500
MLW113 calls 1,435, and is all in
HERO shows [Kc Kh]
MLW113 shows [Jd Jh]
sconnery1 shows [Ac Qd]
*** TURN *** [Ah Ts Kd] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Ah Ts Kd 8d] [3s]
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,480 Main pot 3,610. Side pot 2,870. Rake 0
Board: [Ah Ts Kd 8d 3s]
Seat 2: sconnery1 (button) showed [Ac Qd] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: HERO showed [Kc Kh] and won (6,480) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 9: MLW113 showed [Jd Jh] and lost with a pair of Jacks

I ended up playing for 4 hours and finishing 39th for $102.65.

One hand that bothered me and I felt I should have played better. I was dealt AQ in MP. An EP raised 3x BB and I decided to re-raise to find out where I was at. The EP re-re-raised all-in for another 3,000±. I had him well covered 13,000 to 3,300 (estimates) to start the hand. I ended up calling and he turned over AA and won the hand. I feel like I "got my info" to find out where I was in the hand, but called anyway. Oh well, live and learn.

The hand that put me out I was dealt QJs in MP. I limped, folded to SB (who called) and the BB checked. Flop came Q 10 6. SB checked, BB bet out 18,000 and I had about 30,000. I really felt like I was ahead here and re-raised all-in. The SB folded and the BB turned over AQ and IGHN.

So after 1 day at Full Tilt...

$294.50 Balance
$ 3.55 ($25NL)
$ 76.65 ($24+2 MTT)
$374.70 Balance ( +$74.70)