Vegas June 2009 - Day 2 - WSOP $1000 event

Sunday 31st May

Played my first WSOP event - $1000 buy in. The largest live tournament outside the main event - starting chips 3000 - 1 hour levels.

I had a reasonable run finishing in the top third of the field.

L1 25/25. Get QQ first hand - raise all fold.
L2 25/50 finished with 2,100 - no pairs after my first hand. Raised with AQ and AK but had to fold when missing the flop.
L3 50/100 Won a flip AK vs QQ up to 4000.
L4 75/150 Raised with JTd and bet on 2 diamond flop to get to 4500.
Interesting hand against the youing gun on the table "Mad Mike". I got moved to his left and apparently he had been chatting all day. He does not have many chips left so when he is on BB I can see him itching to splash them. I have K6 clubs UTG and I decided to limp hoping for some calls and then an all-in from him - happy to play heads up for his last 1100. In the end get 2 callers and he checks. When the flop comes 3 clubs and he pushes I get a nice windfall to put me up to 6k. Lost a few when raising from late position with 77 and folding to a reraise from the BB - perhaps I should have called. End L4 with 5500 chips after a battle of the blinds goes a bit wrong when I check with A6 in the BB. Flop T63 SB bets I raise and he calls. Turn 3 and river 5 and we check it down - he shows 88 - perhaps another barrel would have got the pot - but I did get my free cards by the flop raise.
L5 100/200 - up to 6500 after raising with AQ and having to call an all-in bet for only 900 more. He had AK but I hit my Q.
L6 100/200/25 - up to 11000 when calling a standard raise with TT and hitting my set. 1100 players left. Then kept getting hands like AQ and AJ but not hitting flops when called so down to 8500.
L7 150/300/25 - made my first mistake - raised with KQ diamonds from the cut off and then called a reraise from the button. Hmm playing a middling hand out of position in a big pot - not good. Flop comes A97 with one diamond. I checked ready to chuck it away in disgust. Turn was Td giving me a flush and straight draw. Perhaps I should have bet here. River was an A. I checked and he showed 88. I really should have bet out there but it would have been a large part of my stack. If only I had limp called - then the pot would have been smaller. Then get involved with a 3 way all-in. Raise from mid position followed by all-in for 3000 by the button. I have AK in the SB so hope to isolate the all-in but the mid position calls. Oops. He had QQ and the all-in had 88. Luckily I hit my K to stay in but the small stack catches an 8. So now I only have 4,500
L8 200/400/50 Moved all in with AQ but get called by KK so I am out in about 1000 place.