And I was stuck in the middle. After taking it easy saturday and only playing 4 tournaments with no success I wasn't sure I'd use my satellite ticket on Sunday as I was just too involved with the Olympics and the Daytona 500. Well, the race was postponed for quite awhile so about 45 minutes into late registration I decided I would give it a go.
Sat down at a table that didn't have any really large stacks and proceeded to grind my way up to average chips and held pretty constant toward the average for an hour. There were 31,000+ that decided to battle it out in the tournament, so obviously the field would have a big mix of donkeys and some pro's out there. As we got closer to the 10k left mark (5400 got paid) one short stack donkey on my table kept crying about people raising him and finally he busted out. Well then I got moved to another table and huh looked to my right only to see a huge name in the online poker world, Boozeorlose. My only thought was thank God I'm to his left and not right so I at least get to see what he does before I get to act. By far the biggest name player I've ever played with on a table, but luckily he was also about average chip stack. Well on goes the grind when another player busts and who get's moved to the table but a pokerstars sponsored pro, Leo Fernandez! Man, my poor micro grinder heart just about couldn't take it! And of course we were approaching the bubble so I knew those guys would be upping the aggression trying to steal chips.
Well my stack was dwindling when boozeorlose shoved all in and I looked at Ace jack. Not premium cards, but in the situation I was in made the call to gamble and try to stay alive. He turns over pocket Kings after everyone folds and I just think I'm out, but hit a miracle ace on the turn to stay alive! Turns out I only had two aces in the deck to hit as another player folded one. Well shortly after that hand our table was thankfully broken up so I didn't have to worry about those pro's anymore!
I managed to make some moves towards the bubble and chipped up nice, but lost a few pots to put me short stacked again and hit a bad spot going all in and 3 people called. Pocket tens held up and hit trips for a huge pot that would have vaulted me even higher, but I placed 2607 out of the 31,000 plus field for my largest cash of $26 on stars. Not huge, but some good learning experiences and I think I'll try to satellite into this tournament more often now. Other than that grinded a few SNG's and had a few cashes to put me up a decent chunk for the weekend. I'm looking forward to another week of putting in some time on the felt and coming away with new skills and knowledge!
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