Busted early into the tenth level. I had about 9.5k, blinds were 400/800 with 100 ante. CO shipped for about 10k first in and it was folded to me. I had ATo and CO was a pretty reasonable player so I think I'm in good shape against his range, I estimated about 60-40 favourite. I call and he flips over KTo and wins on a aqkk4r board. I ended up 59/163.
My friend Raz was still in by this point so I decided to play the 220€ Omaha event. I'm by no means an Omaha expert, but I think I understand enough of the game to not be losing in a small buy-in Omaha event. I did fairly well for the most part. I saw some very bad play. Some of the Hold'em cash game players were just playing to pass time waiting for a seat in the cash games that were currently unvailable due to the two tournaments taking up all the tables. You could tell they didn't care about the money and were making classic beginner mistakes, so I immediately felt more comfortable about my own game.
My strategy was to play tight prefop to facilitate postflop decision making and try and "gamble" with equity to get a big stack. I think most of my decisions were reasonable, I might have been playing a little bit too loose in some spots preflop, but I was able to steal a couple of spots postflop with blockers and got it in with decent equity for the most part.
In retrospect I think my edge might have been bigger than I thought so I might not have had to push my equity so hard in some spots. However the structure was pretty poor with 30 minute blinds and 120bb starting stacks so it was a crapshoot anyway.
On my bust out hand I had overlimped w/AJT2 suited to the ace. We were 4 way to the flop and the board was J45xcc giving me top pair, top kicker, a nutflush draw and a gutshot. It was checked to the first in limper and he fired 1k into 1.2k I think I had about 10k behind and he covered. This was a reasonable stack size at the time, but blinds were rising fast so my 30ish big blinds weren't that much. I decided this was good spot to push equity and he reshoved my pot raise w/JJ67xcxc. The turn and river bricked and it was gg me. By this point my friend had busted 32/163 in the main event, 16 places out of the money so I got some food from the player buffet and headed back to the hotel.
I feel pretty happy with my play in both events and I feel I've gained in experience and also some knowledge in theoretical tournament spots. Tomorrow I should finally get to check out the spa and relax a little. We should probably also get round to doing some shopping and there should be a VIP party from Betfair.
Not sure yet what we're going to do for the rest of the night. The lads seem to want to go and play some live cash and I might chime in, though I'm not sure I can get enough cash out of the atm to play the bigger games tonight, but we'll see, not exactly sure what my daily limits are (if I have any at all on this card). Probably won't play lower than the 10000EEK games which is the eqivalent to 600€.
Here's a picture of our room with my friend Raz on the right and Bb on the left: