first blood

my first poker tournament took place at harrah's rincon casino this past thursday night - it cost $20 to enter, $5 for the house extra and had a $10 rebuy in (one time only - an extra 1500 in chips which you could only do before the third blind raise).

was a show of nerds and fat guys like myself

there were either 4 or 5 tables of players (9 per table) and I lasted and placed at 7th place (not bad for my first game?)

sucky things that happened:

my drink cost $5.50 (wtf? thought it was a casino)

i put in too many blinds at first because i was scared

i was late from the 10 min break and lost some chips because i was in the small blind

some dude next to me kept holding my arm when i was folding before my turn, scolding me

worst: some dude raised to 1600 (on a 500 blind) and i didn't hear him and just checked (put in 500) then they made me put in the other 1000, he reraised and i folded

good stuff:

called a dude who went all in with k-8, i had 9-9 and won

won another all in hand (for me, the other guy had a big chip stack) with 5-5 vs. king/ace, jacks were on the board and the river was a 5

knocked out the arm-holding dude

made it to the final table and beat out a bunch of other losers