Finally made a day 2. Still pretty far away from the money with 122 remaining and only 36 pay. My chipstack is 34,000 going into 800/1600. Played too many hands today to remember. Pretty much every table had some recognizable pro. Played a bit with Hoss at the end of last night’s play and it was good to finally meet him as we’ve played a decent amount online together in 7 game. It was not the juiciest of fields but there were still your usual donks who for some reason get staked for these events who really have no business playing. I don’t mind as most of them busted pretty early on.
The stud hi event I ended up playing for 7 something hours before busting. I lost one critical hand when I was at my peak chipstack of 11k and opened (3s9s)Ks and ended up getting four way action for a huge pot at 400/800. Going into the river I was headsup vs this loose, bad old guy who was holding (9hTs)6d9dTcKh vs my (3s9s)KsJsJd5h so my flushdraw with a pair of jacks vs his made 9s and Ts. Propokertools is spazzing at the moment and won’t let me pull up my equity but it was pretty good. I ended up rivering a Jack for trip Jacks and lead out and he flat called when he rivered another ten for tens full of nines. It’s sort of funny how whether you cash or make day 2 or whatever of some of these events really just come down to one crucial river card. That one didn’t do it for me. After that I just kind of bled away until I got my last 4 or 5k of chips in with an Ace high spade four flush on 4th street vs what ended up being trip Aces (AA)3A. The last card they deal down even if you are all in for some odd reason and he flipped his which didn’t pair his board so my spades were still live. He had just lost a couple of medium sized pots to bad beats and I asked him “Are you sweating this?” he said, “Yeah, I’m sweating it pretty hard.” I quickly flipped it up but alas it was a 5h and I was out.