After over 12 hours of play we finally reached the money in yesterday’s Venetian $330. I had around 95k with the blinds at 4000/8000, far from comfortable. After we got ITM, I lost a race for about half my stack with 88 < KJo then tripled up with 66. I picked up JJ in consecutive hands and open shoved each time, picking up the blinds/antes the first time then losing a race to another player’s TT. The flop came A-Q-T giving me some outs but the resuck didn’t come and I finished 62nd of 914 for $529. If my JJ had held, i would’ve had an avg stack of just under 200k going into today’s Day 2. The payouts are very top heavy which is awesome if you final table, otherwise it blows. What i got paid last night just about covers my buy-in for today’s $550. I bought in last night to avoid the line. The tournament starts at noon.
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I left a comment under another category in regards to my Venetian experience in the $550. The payouts are VERY top-heavy. I thought I should have gotten more than $5,600 for my 8th place finish…. still… not bad for the $260 I invested in the sattelites.
I wish I had a little more time… just had a 3 day weekend… now back to work
GL today.
Good luck. Sucks for over 12 hours of play but can always be worse, right; you could have bubbled.