I was sitting at WM's table when he busted the night before. WM had a habit of potting it out of the big blind after a lot of limpers. Some Euro guy decided to call him down with just KK on a board of QQx. Apparently the guy didn't appreciate WM making this move and decided to stake his tournament on proving to the table that WM was fulll of it.

I actually only started with $23k in chips. WSOP thought I had $32k in chips b/c i fked up and lied and said I had $32k. Haha, they just took that unofficial count and put it on the website. But then I set down to play with my $23k and doubled up my very first hand to put me at $46k... LAG UTG raised pre-flop and I re-potted with A3KK. Flop sucked... 349. But I c-bet it for most of my chips and he set me all-in and showed A24x. The turn and river came running high cards and I scoop, lolz.

I was sitting pretty with $50k in chips when we hit the money (Avg stack was something like $32k). My stack was below average for my table though. Once we hit money, my table went crazy. Nearly every hand was pot-raised pre-flop. I called off $15k of my stack missing flops in raised pots. With $1k/$2k blinds and having a 17 bb stack, I took a shot in the CO with a garbage hand of something like 679T. It was folded to me in the cut-off and I potted it. Big blind thought for a bit and then re-raised about setting me all-in. I said fk it let's gamble and we both stuck it in. I believe he had A5QT for a typical 60/40 scenerio. It's so easy to get pot committed in short stacked PLO8 since you got to assume 2:1 worst case. Anyway, the flop came all high cards and I was busto. Too bad because I that would have been fun for my image. People were confused how I played so tight only to stick it in with a trash hand.

It was my first time 1) Playing a WSOP event 2) Playing a live tournament 3) Playing PLO8 live. I wish I could have hung on a little further, but the prize structure was such that it didn't make a big difference unless I made the final table. I took home a $4k prize for a net of something like $2.5k.