I was looking forward to this $500 6-max event more than any other in the series. UB tournament players suck, they suck even more at 6-max, and most of them have no business spending $500 on a poker tournament. But apparently they can kick my butt anyway.
I picked up a few smallish pots right away, then got into a messy spot raising UTG (but 6-handed, remember) with 99 and getting reraised by an aggressive player in the BB. Given the stacks involved, I probably should have folded, but I called and then peeled a T46 flop, only to fold the turn and watch 1/3 of my stack shipped to my opponent.
After that I was at an awkward stack size and called a button raise with KQo in my SB, something I rarely do but that felt right since I was too far ahead of his range to fold but stacks were too awkward to 3-bet. I check-raised a T9x flop and took it down.
After the break, I squeeze pushed K8s against a raise from the big stack in the CO and a call from the button. The CO called, I didn’t even see with what because I was playing a bunch of cash tables, and apparently I lost. Oh well.