That wraps up my first live event. Finished 84th out of 2600 in the 1500 NLHE. What an intense day. I started with 9400 chips or about 6 blinds expecting to bust within the first few hands. Surprisingly though people were folding to my shoves :S and I built up like a 20bb stack before doubling up with 97s against TT for a beautiful suckout. It kinda exploded from there as I was finally able to start playing some poker again, at the peak I had about 160k a short while after a bluff that almost gave me a heart attack.

Blinds were like 1200/2400 with 300 antes and the co an older rich looking obv non professional poker player trying to steal my blinds every orbit. I flat his 3.5x in the bb with AJo. Flops K44 2flush. I c/c like 8k. Turns the T completing the flush. I bet out 17k, he calls. River bricks, I shove like 65k or whatever just under pot was which is why I only bet 17 on turn, and he had me covered, he tanks for like 5 minutes while my hearts beating out of my chest then finally folds AK. He was asking me for a while what I had and I kept quiet until later on near the end of my day I get transfered to another table he's now on. He asks me again, so finally I tell him I had the nutflush with AJ of spades...he had the ace of spades though, so he didn't really like that comment I don't think. Anyway, near the end I was on a pretty soft table with like 40bb and feeling very comfortable. In a matter of 3 hands I get wiped out. TT v KQ that doesn't hold, then my A8s v K9o that got rivered, and that was basically the end of my stack.

All in all was a pretty fun experience, thinking of playing the 2k tomorrow if I can get up in time.

Cheers