First off sorry about the lack of updates... no glasses + no phone charger = b0!!oxed!!!
As is probably already obvious to all - there were no cashes.
I don"t think I have ever run as bad in a tournament, as I did in the ME... KK twice, AA once and AK twice, all in the first level and I managed to lose 12.5k chips! I think I could of lost them all really early with KK, but found a fold [Rightly or wrongly? I don"t know? I"ll post the hand in the appropriate place]
I was able to grind a short stack until the antes started, when another 3bet all-in went wrong. A guy 2 seats to my right had raised just about all of the four or five hands... next hand I had already decided to make a stand if he open raised my BB... he did and called pretty quickly with AQs.
I never managed to get above starting stack in the PLO and eventually exited when I got it in with A345 on a 23x flop, against 23xx... and missed obv.
I put in my request that I thought playing with other peoples money might help keep me focused, in actual fact I think it made me a bit too cautious and affected some of my decisions [like folding the KK early?]. So I don"t think I shall be looking for staking in the future... you"ll all be pleased to know. :-)