Just busted late on day 1. I know I'm prone to be a bit results oriented now, but in retrospect I do think the spot was marginal. It's a cash game habit to auto-push small edges, but then when you look back under MTT circumstances you hadn't needed to.
Anyway on to the hand, it's pretty straigh forward. A guy just busted so we are 9 handed. blinds are 200/400 w/50 ante. I have 14k in chips. My largest was about 30k, but since I had moved to my current table I'd not been making hands and making moves at the wrong time. By this point I had 19k and decided to tune it down a bit so I guess I had been blinding down some. Anywho, a new guy to the table raised utg+2 to 3x. He raised the previous hand before and called a shove from a shorter stack and won at showdown with a premium (sorry can't recall the exact had, but it was standard premium). I know this guy is very likely to be a reasonable MTT reg, he had sponsorship badges and a poker school badge.
It's folded to me and I look down at red jacks and decide to 3-bet. Now this is the spot where I think my play became marginal. I saw a premium hand and auto raised after having a longish dry spell (about 3 hours). I think my plan to 3-bet call is generally +ev, but I think it's fairly high variance, because I'm about 40-60 vs his shoving range due to his position and my peceived table image by him (he hadn't seen all the bets I had been making where I had been folding).
So we get it in and he shows AK and wins the flip and I bust. I definetly prefer flatting given my post-analysis, but will try not to beat myself up too much because of it.
All in all I'm glad I made the experience. The field was definetly softer than I had expected. I saw a lot of the better players 4-bet and then tank for a long time w/50bb effective stack sizes and there were a bunch of recreational players that were amusing to listen to.
The hotel is ridiculous, likely the most balla I've stayed in in Europe (Mariott Docklands might be the best, but it's close).
I guess I'm just gonna sleep over it and then get back into the cash game grind. Obviously I'll also do a bunch of sight seeing from tomorrow onwards. I'll be staying here till Sunday and on Saturday there will be a player party at a local night club.

Daniell