It"s not looking good. Hit with the deck several times and got up to 50k after the dinner-break. Dribbled a few and then lost 18k with AA v KK. Winning that would have put me right up there, probably into 2nd at that stage. Down to 27k, I raised to 2k from 800 with JJ. Short-stack shoved for 8k more and I decided to take the probable race. QQ/KK not that likely and he might have an underpair. AQ, A on flop, down to 17k.
It"s been an amazing experience. Had Ali Mallu on my 1st table - after a while you get used to him raising pre-flop to 1050 from 100, shoving the flop for 12k over a bet of 300, etc. You just hope that you are holding a cracker the next time he does it. On my current table, Toby Lewis is raising every second hand to 2.5BB and getting them through - whenever I raise I get called or reraised. When he has had to showdown, he has shown something like A5 - so I don"t know why the big stacks are letting him get through.
With 16BB, I"m lowest of the 25 survivors from the 2nd sitting, though there are a few similar and a few with less from the other one. Can"t fold to the money with 61 left -1 hour levels will help to find a good spot, but I"ll have to make a stand before long.
