Event 40 5k NL 6max. I play my D game, and as a result I was never above starting stack, . I drew a tough table, Alan Sternberg, Brock Parker, Zack Clark, Jeff Madsen, and a young online kid. Busted before dinner reshoving my last 20 BBs with AQ and losing to Zack’s 88. Very dissapointed.

Event 43 1500 NL. I played 2 hands, and misplayed both of them. 25/25, I open 55 to 75, guy flats, I bet 100 on K84r, he calls, I bet 300 on 5h turn, bringing a flush draw, he calls, river is a 2h, I bet 800, he makes it 2600, I tank/call, he has A9hh for the nuts, his float on the flop worked out perfectly, I should have still folded though. 2nd hand I don’t remember, but it was a mistake as well (in my defense I had like 1/4 of the starting stack).

Event 45 1000 NL. Absolutely zero recollection of what happened (it was 5 days ago, and different hands from different tourneys are beginning to mix together), the only thing I know for sure is that I didn’t win it.

Event 48 1500 NL. Out of the first 4 levels I miss a good hour and a half of playing time for various reasons. My first 4 hands I play bad, but get lucky. This young kid moves to our table level 2, one to my right, and starts ordering drinks right away. He started off playing really well, building a monster stack early, but being wasted+out of position is a very difficult thing to overcome. I get a lot of chips of him, keep running good by making good hands vs others, and finish day 1 as a chipleader with 130k, 370 out of 2700 remaining, 270 getting paid, 650k for 1st, 3k for 270th.
Day 2 I couldn’t get much going on the bubble, but didn’t lose any chips either. Won a big hand when I flatted TT in position, and an old man shipped 35 BBs from the BB, I tank/called after a minute or so, and beat his 66. I get to the high point of 260k, and unfortunately the things slow down. 3bet/folded AQo in position vs an aggro kid like 50 BB deep, I felt even though he was aggro, his 4bet range had me crushed (he showed down QQ+ EVERY time he 4bet). Jon Little minraises with 25 BBs, I have like 35-40 BBs in position with AQo, so I 3bet, intending to call, old man cold 4bet ships for like 30 BBs, fold again, oldie said he had KK. I lose hands/blind down all the way to 93k at 5k/10k/1k, ship J9s in the HJ, and lose to AJo, 42nd place for 12k. This is the closest I’ve been this World Series, but not nearly close enough.

Didn’t play the 10k 6 max, because I’m poor. Didn’t play 5k triple chance, because I was in day 2 of the 1500. Didn’t play 2500 no limit/limit holdem today, because I don’t know how to play limit, don’t like limit, and because I’m lazy. Next tournament for me is the 1k on Sat/Sun, depending on which starting day I choose.

2011 WSOP so far: 16 tourneys, $35,000 in buyins, 2 cashes for $15,600 total, so down almost 20k, attrocious.