Really thought I would get some interesting ideas from the community, kinda bummed that no one came up with anything. Maybe it is just too low of an amount that no one is interested, I guess I understand that. Like I said my real poker roll is tied up on BCP and this was really just for fun and the nostalgia factor.

Anyways I got 8th in a $5+.50 10K guarantee for a score of $170. I really chit the bed at the final table. We were at 9 players for a long, long time, people calling the short stack shoves weak looking for the KOs, shorties kept doubling, you know how it is. This gave me the chance to watch everyone's play and even tho it was a small sample size I felt comfortable saying I was the best player at the table.

Finally we got down to 8 and me and another guy were pretty much tied for the chip lead. My flopped set of 8s got turned into a bluff when the board came 8c10cJh2cAc A guy in the middle of the pack stack wise called my bets on every street with Qc8s. Gross. Thoughts on how I should have played this? I was upset but had no doubt I could come back.

Couple orbits later I had worked my wayback up to third in chips. I get dealt QKhh in the SB. The guy UTG who is also the new chip leader opens to 6bbs Everyone folds to me I call, BB folds. Flop comes 10s9hJh I mean I am pretty much busting a nut at this point because he cant have AJ-AK of hearts obv, and I don't see him raising x6 UTG with any other heart combo MAYBE A10 but I doubted it. I check knowing that he will Cbet. He does and its a shove. I call. Freaking shows A3hh. I'm yelling at the monitor no heart!!! no heart!!! Turn 5c this is when I realize the 10h is no good for him great one less out for him so 6 cards that beat me with one card left to come, I win this about 88 times out of 100 right?. River.................5h. My heart sinks, its a mistake, I must be reading the board wrong, right? I didn't really lose with that hand? No mistake I'm out in 8th outa 1,840 entries. GG me.

I realize that was a lot of drama over a $5.50 buy-in but damn number of entries wise this was the biggest tournament I had played in a long time and I wanted the damn win. The games on WPN just don't get that many entries. Not only would the $1,600 win have been freaking amazing after depositing $80 only 24 hours ago (thats $100 more than my whole WPN roll) but shipping a tournament that large would have been a huge mental win for me. To out last over 1,800 people to lose like that really freaking stings, it just demonstrates the variance that you have to overcome to succeed in big MTTs.