I'm just gonna paste in the comments I was telling JM on aim... excuse the format

bobthenakedmule: I played in this horrid 20$ tourney at a moose lodge thursday
bobthenakedmule: started w/ 1k in chips
bobthenakedmule: blinds moved up EVERY 20 mins!!!

bobthenakedmule: by the start of the second hour... blinds were 50/100
el ganador ace: lol wow
bobthenakedmule: twenty mins later.... 100/200

bobthenakedmule: some brutal players in it though
bobthenakedmule: one guy acted so quickly it was an obvious bluff on a board of 244
bobthenakedmule: so I reraised him w/ Ace high
bobthenakedmule: I took a chunk from him there
bobthenakedmule: few hands later he raised w/ A9
bobthenakedmule: he got a caller
bobthenakedmule: all diamonds come out
bobthenakedmule: he moves in like lightening... I'm positive he's bluffing but I sit and watch
bobthenakedmule: other person struggles and then she calls
bobthenakedmule: she's got Ad9h
bobthenakedmule: he's got Ac9c

bobthenakedmule: it gets worse
bobthenakedmule: the tourney is mostly dominated by old farts that know the 20 mins blind level
bobthenakedmule: but we got stuck w/ this guy younger than me that took forever to make a decision on good hands
bobthenakedmule: she probably took 5 mins of each level just to think

bobthenakedmule: and to make matters worse... my J3 forced allin was cuz I had just been hit w/ the BB
bobthenakedmule: they moved two ppl to my table... so they high carded for the button again
bobthenakedmule: and I went from about to be on the button to the blinds approaching in two hands

bobthenakedmule: final two tables... I'm watching this hand
bobthenakedmule: board of J4463
bobthenakedmule: in that order
bobthenakedmule: on the river this guy goes allin
bobthenakedmule: other guy calls... first guy announces, I have two pair Jacks and treys (turns up J3s)
bobthenakedmule: other guy says well that's fine... I've got Jacks and Fours w/ a ten kicker (turns up JT)
bobthenakedmule: I just turn and walk away dumbfounded
el ganador ace: lol O M G
el ganador ace: i would have laughed at him
bobthenakedmule: I had a guy at my table that I talked w/ before we started... he plays at UB and a few other sites
bobthenakedmule: (several others played online too)
bobthenakedmule: HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DEAL THE GAME
el ganador ace: lol
bobthenakedmule: I lost a lot of respect for poker players Thursday night

That pretty much caps it off...

Mars

OOH, let me play too......

Same tourney. I have a stack of about 600 left, blinds at 30/60. Early position raises to 150. Cutoff calls and I call on the button with 99. Flop is three rags, and it check/checks to me. I have a little more than pot size, so I move in. Raiser looks at me and says "your nines are good" and mucks. Cutoff seems to be teetering whether to call or not, and throws away A7 suited (top pair). Fishy on this hand is that the guy directly across the table from me read my hand that well after I had only played about 3 hands previous, and then he ANNOUNCES it with action yet to come.

Also, twice when someone was eliminated from my table, a dead button should have occurred. They just move the button, and the same guy was saved from the big blind both times. BS.

Then there was the hand where I was in the SB and to my left sat an old guy that knew a little, but wasnt too good. Folds to my SB and I raise with Ax suited. He thinks for a second and folds. I am liking my tight table image, so i turn up my ace and drag the blinds. He gets all pissed off at me and says "that ace doesnt mean nothing". I told him that it meant that I wasnt stealing with shit, and that I probebly had the best hand. He bitches a bit more about how I dont know what im doing (HAHAHAHA). Needless to say, he steams off the rest of his chips in the next 3 hands.

I think that even though the blinds make this a brutal game, I may go back. I think that I will limp more with marginal hands the first level, and try to make a hand. As long as I can drag a couple of large pots before the fourth level, I can have enough chips to maneuver into the money.