The trip started out well with a win at the cash games in PLO, where I luckboxed a $500 win on the river in a hand which I completely misplayed. And then after a dinner break, came back and played 2/5 NL, for another win which means that it will pay for a few tournament entries, giving me a freeroll.
I kicked off the tournament run playing a $300 deep stack (15K chips) at Caesars. There were about 200 players, so they only paid 18 spots. After 3 or 4 levels, I was still about even, and didn't really hit anything. Then when I was down to around 10k chips, with the blinds at 200/400, there was an early raiser for 1800 or so, and 2 callers, so I pushed with AK out of the big blind, and the original raiser pushed in with 88 and I won that race. Bad call / push by him, since I'm only pushing a pair higher than 8s, or AK, so AK is the worst hand that I'm playing there.
We switch tables, and I double up again to around 45k by calling a raise in the blind with KJs and flopping a flush vs KK. We get all in on the flop and he is basically drawing dead to hitting the case K and the board pairing. This puts me at the 2nd largest stack at the table, but I fail to capitalize on it. After a break, I win another race with my AK vs JJ and get up to around 60k chips with about 60/70 players remaining. Another hand where I had AKs vs AQ ended up in an unlikely chop, when I turned a flush draw and the river brought us a wheel, ugh. She had 2 out to beat me, and 3 to tie. With 50k in that pot, I would have had a really nice stack, but it was not to be.
We get down to 3 tables and I have not had a hand, and have about 40k, when I finally do double up when an utg raiser opened up 8 handed and I pushed with QQ, he calls with AJ and I get close to 100k chips. There are about 24/23 players, and my stack get's whittled down to just under 80k, when everyone folds to me on the button and I have AK with blinds at 3/6k. I raised to 20k, and the BB pushes for around 70k. I call and he turns over AK hearts which hits the flush, ugh. This leaves me with only 3500 chips where I have to stick it in with 76o vs KQ and 99. Even though I flop a 6, I can't get enough luck to suck out and the 99 hand busts myself and another player. Exit the game in either 21st or 22nd place, just missing the money.
While I made a couple of mistakes, I played about as well as I could even though I came up short. I forgot to mention that when I switched tables and hit the flush, Jerry Yang, main event winner in 2007 was on my left for a long while. He is a nice guy, and didn't mind that people came up to him to chat, or to get a picture. I even saw the bracelet, which is about as close as I will ever get to one :-D
Wednesday torture session will include a $500 tournament at the Venetian. They have been getting fields of over 500 players, so this should be a good one.
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