For the second day in a row I play well in a free roll tournament online.

I have discovered a very good reason to play on canbet poker. Their free roll tournament rule is such that: everyone starts with 1000 chips in the tournament, but if you have played in their poker room in the past 24 hours, you can get extra chips according to the number of raked hands you have played, up to a maximum of 3000 bonus chips. I therefore start my game with 4000 chips compared with many rivals of mine who have to start with much fewer chips than me.

To be honest, I do not play the game for the prize: if I need to defeat more than 7,700 players to win US$67, then I do not understand why I am doing this. I think the experience of playing such big tournaments online will give me valuable experience that will be very useful in the future. I am looking forward to playing other types of tournaments in the future.

Back to the game, my first hand in the tournament is QQ; someone pushed all in against me with his 99, and he becomes the first casualty in the whole tournament. I look at the tournament information board, for a very brief moment I am ranked #1 among 7760 players in terms of chip count. It is my moment of glory.

I win a few battles and towards the first break, I have about 19,000 chips, much better than average. I am contemplating when to make my next move. I lost a crucial head up with my two pairs versus a straight, and the distance between the chip leaders and me becomes very big.

With about 15,000 chips in my hand, I play my 4-5 versus the chip leader at my table who has over 75,000 chips. Flop is 5-6-8, and when a second 5 appears on the turn I know it is my time to push all in. The chip leader calls me and he has a flush draw. The dreaded fifth clubs falls on the river which ends my tournament life.

353th out of 7760 players, I am quite happy with how I play today. I know I need to play more often to get ready for the big tournaments in September.