I believe I played this hand pretty bad on a few levels.  But what makes it worse is it contributed to finishing 12th out of 885.  There's two tables of 6.  My table is fairly tight especially considering it's 6 handed.  Below you can see I'm UTG with KT.  I'm mainly trying to steal the blinds and I almost clicked “Fold”.  So that could be one mistake, but with my chipstack. only 2 of my 5 opponents have me covered.

Anyhow, I played the hand.  CO calls, BB calls.  I flop top pair and I think that may get me some action since a T is not normally in my range.  I fire a 1/3 bet (perhaps mistake #2).  CO calls.  He could have a flush draw or something like 87, 76, or a pair (any pair I guess).  He could also have a T with me.

After he calls my Turn bet alarms are going off all over the place.  Perhaps he has a set, or he hit the 87 (although that's a raise), or he can still be on the flush draw hoping he has the implied odds to make the call.

Mistake #3 (IMO) is the river bet when I hit the King.  I kinda thought that King doesn't help me.  But I can't help myself …

I'd be interested in how I could have played the hand differently.  I'll post the result latter.

Merge No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t/t Blinds – 6 players – View hand 2476152
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter

Player1 (MP): t331541 1 BBs – VPIP: 23, PFR: 16, 3B: 6, AF: 5.5, Hands: 99
Player3 (CO): t561120 1 BBs – VPIP: 24, PFR: 15, 3B: 7, AF: 1.0, Hands: 123
Player4 (BTN): t575169 1 BBs – VPIP: 40, PFR: 17, 3B: 0, AF: 4.0, Hands: 48
Player5 (SB): t241312 1 BBs – VPIP: 15, PFR: 10, 3B: 1, AF: 2.0, Hands: 180
Player8 (BB): t309510 1 BBs – VPIP: 18, PFR: 14, 3B: 6, AF: 9.0, Hands: 184
Hero (UTG): t422600 1 BBs – VPIP: 16, PFR: 12, 3B: 5, AF: 3.5, Hands: 20869

Pre Flop: (t0) Hero is UTG with K T
Hero raises to t24000, 1 fold, Player3 calls t24000, 2 folds, Player8 calls t24000

Flop: (t72000) 7 3 T (3 players)
Player8 checks, Hero bets t36600, Player3 calls t36600, Player8 folds

Turn: (t145200) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t55200, Player3 calls t55200

River: (t255600) K (2 players)
Hero bets t100000, Player3 calls t100000