Chrome,

Played tonight in the Austrlaian poker league which is a free league going around Synday and south coast of NSW. I decided I would only play good hands which were Ace and 8 or higher, King and 10 or higher and Queen and Jack. I would also limp in from small/big blind when I could.

The game started at 7pm and I was knocked out just over 3 hours later. There were 165 players and I ended up 10th. The most important thing was I only played 6 hands all night and won all but 1 hand which I had to go all in becasue I was short stack and I hit King Ten suited . The big blind beat me with Ace Queen and she hit an Ace on the flop and proceeded to get a full house. All night my highest cards were 6 and 9 except for those 6 hands. I think i saw the same "2" and "3" cards 30 times plus in the space of 3 hours.

But it shows how you don't have to win many hands to progress ( espeically in tournaments) and had I hit a couple of more Aces or Kings in the final few hands I would have easily made it a lot further but the cards never came and the blinds ate my chips.

Anyway I wish I had made 2 more spots as instead of getting 82 points I would have got 165 points.

BTW First prize was $175, second was $75 and third was $50.

If you play alot on freerolls I suggest doing a similar strategy.

Good Luck.