I decided to relax a little today and just play the $340 Caesars Palace Megastack tourny with 15,000 starting chips. 135 runners, soft table as usual, but just couldn't get anything going. Nice to get AA three times in the first level, but not much action and then just stay close to my start stack for the first four levels without any notable hands to report.

I thought that something might start happening when I managed to take down 2 or 3 pots during Level 5 when my stack reached the towering height of 20k, but it was a false dawn and I soon bled-off down to 15k again by getting 3-bet when I was opening light or missing flops when I was calling.

The basic pattern to my hands was that every time I opened a pot with a good hand, everyone folded, and everytime I was trying to steal the blinds, I got 3-bet and had to fold. As we entered the 300/600/75 level, my stack started to rapidly diminish and soon I had 12.5k and was looking for a resteal spot.

Not really much to discuss, but a short-stack opened MP for 1800 with 8k behind, got cold-called by an aggressive guy OTB and I looked at 99 in the BB. After so long without a decent hand, these looked like Aces and I figured I had to get it in here versus the opener's range. I shoved. He tank called, OTB folded and he fist pumped as he saw my hand and showed his TT. I did not suck-out and put my remaining 4BBs into the next pot with T9s but couldn't beat Ax.

On to another try at WSOP tomorrow...

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