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Skipped Event 4, which was the $500 PLO 6-max. Chief (for those of you who know him) IM’ed me for a quick primer in the game cuz he satellited in. My first piece of advice was not to play satellites for tournaments you shouldn’t be playing. I told him everything I knew about the game in about 60 words and turned him loose. He told me I could write here that I coached a champion when he won. He PM’ed me half an hour later to say he was busto.
Event 5 was the $100 rebuy no limit hold ’em. Ironically the guy who called me down with KJ on the AAK99 board last night was at the table, and called a preflop shove with KJ to beat my TT. That was the only time I rebought, and thanks to some other fishes, including one guy who called down my AA all the way on KK425 board with A2 (cards came in that order, so he had A2 on flop), I finished the rebuy period with like 17K, which was good enough to be in 225th place out of like 1300 still in it.
I forced myself to play tight after the rebuy period, once just check-called pot bets all the way with K3 on K95KA board to beat A4, then blinded off some more. Everytime I tried to raise pre-flop, someone would make it very clear he had a monster and I had to get out. I got KK but ended up folding the turn on a 5678 board to the same A4 guy.
I had just slipped below average for the first time when I got TT in my BB. We were at 250/500, and the SB opened to 1900. I shoved for 10K more, he called with A8, and caught his [censored] Ace on the river to bad beat me for a 24K pot when average stack was around 18K. After that I clung to life for a while as a short stack, finally at 400/800 I shove 5200 from the button with 87o into a pretty tight player’s BB. He called with 22 to win the flip. Blaaaaaaaaaargh!!!
I did take second in a little $100 pot limit hold ’em on Stars that had 33 players (again went out on lost flip, but difference was only like $700 b/w first and second), but the most exciting bit of news was that Andy Bloch friended me on Facebook! I told him who I was when we played in the HORSE last night, which I’m guessing is how he knew my name. Anyway that’s cool because he is a cool guy and one of the few FT pros whose game I respect. Holla athca boy!