That was quick. Today was the $320 6-max, not the $500 Stud/8, which is actually tomorrow. Mkind was the only named I recognized at the table. Hand 1 I flopped a set of 7’s on 678 flop, raised some dude’s c-bet, bet the turn, and he folded. Then I called MKind’s raise with As8s on my button, called his bet into two players on a 964ss flop. The turn was a 5, they both checked to me, and I figured this board would be sufficiently scary to fire at. The other guy put in a little check-raise, making me think he’d turned the nuts, so I called and folded to a bet on a board-pairing, non-spade river.
There were two overly aggressive players at the table. One of them opened to 60 (still at 10/20 level), Mkind called, I made 280 with AK in my BB, the first guy thought a bit and 4-bet to 1100. I played with this guy a bit in the first WCOOP event I played and thought he was kinda weak and almost certainly a satellite qualifier. His big 4-bet made me discount AA/KK even though I expected him to be playing scared. I shoved with no fold equity, he called with TT and won the flip. Not that his play is awful, but I think calling with TT and our stacks (about 115 BB effective) is much better than 4-betting and committing his whole stack.