Adventure into MTT

After sitting at a rather soft 50$ max buy-in cash game at party poker for about an hour, I am targeting this over-agressive bet anytime about 2x the pot with missed draws and flat out bluffs. I catch an A-high hearts flush with 2 tens on the board. He bets 2x pot and I raise all-in. He insta-calls and flips over the 10s full of Ks full house. Could have limited my losses there.

Lesson: The raise on the river was pointless bet. Call the large overbet, he has a habit of bluffing. But with a pair ont he board, don't go overboard and risk your whole stack. No to mention he had checked his two-pair and he wasn't prone to checking, so it should have sent off warnings that he was slow-playing.

After loosing that 50$, I just smiled and decided to try a MTT. I have done many a SNG, but I have played in just 2 or 3 MTTs. Always coming away frustrated at playing for hours only to be sucked out on and not have any profit to show for it... however, I see the extreme upside if you have one great tourny and the increased earnings if playing well in MTTs consistently.

Ended up placing 23rd out of 338 people in 6$ rebuy. I didn't rebuy as I had some good double-ups early. More on rebuys later, I am not sure I understand them... in fact I am sure that I don't. Survived on a short stack most of the tourny. Only $50+ dollar cash, but not too shabby for a little MTT trial.