So I ended up playing in Event #28 of the PokerStars World Championships of Online Poker. It was a $1,050 buyin with a total of 3,268 entries. I was on the fence about whether or not I was going to play it or not, but one of my students, Jason, talked me into it when he offered to take 50% of my action. I normally don't play in tournaments, especially ones with that large of a buyin mainly because the luck factor and variance is just so huge.
I decided to give this one a shot, however, as there was a total prize pool of $3,268,000 and first place was over $500,000. I ended up getting through almost 2/3 of the field before busting out in 1388th place. The top 495 places got paid.
Midway through the tournament I lost a huge, key pot when my AK lost to KQ all-in pre-flop. Then later on, I busted out in classic donkament fashion with the exact same hand scenario that damaged my stack earlier in the tournament. I shoved my AK for about a 8xs re-raise all in pre-flop vs an early position opener and he snap-called with KQ and backdoored into a flush to knock me out of the tournament.
I definitely had a huge edge in the tournament and it was kinda fun playing one since I hadn't done so in so long, but I'll be sticking to cash obviously. My friend Kyle is definitely the true touuuuurney pro, so I'll leave them to him!
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