*Sigh*
Played the £200 freezeout in the January Sales Festival at The Rendezvous in Brighton on Friday. I was determined to be disciplined and focussed, and pretty much stick to my usual gameplan. This deserted me before Xmas, where I got sucked into the low-blind limping mentality, which is not me at all.
Anyway, I was certainly tight and disciplined, but to be honest, anyone would have been with the cards I had – I wasn’t card-dead, I was card-extinct! No complaints tho, that’s how it goes.
Anyway, the structure had us starting with 6000 chips, with 30 minute blinds and ante’s from level 5. In level 1 I had KK and JJ and won small pots, reaching a height of 7.5k and those were the only hands I played in the first 3 levels. At the break I had 5.5k, the next level being 150-300, and I was happy that “the play would start now”. I hadn’t donked off a load of chips, I had a good image, and I was ready to go.
Sadly, I couldn’t play a hand in level 4. I had a succession of 6-9, Q-2 etc. The ’standard’ bet to open a pot on this table was 4-5x, which also meant I had no real fold-equity to bluff with, but even then, generally a raise was followed by a re-raise, so basically I had no cards and no position.
In level 5, with 3600 chips and blinds at 150-300-25, I got AQ and KQ and again, took the blinds with no action, and after that the only decision I had to make was when to shove. Obviously when I did shove, I lost 
So, basically a bit of a non-event in as much as all my plays were auto-plays, I had no decisions to make and nothing I could get involved with once the tournament reached the stage where play was very much required.
Still, for what it’s worth, I felt focussed and confident, and am looking forward to getting another opportunity to play.