On another note, I recently took a stab at playing an Aussie Millions satellite, as well as a PokerStars Caribbean Adventures satellite. On the Aussie Million front, busted in 11/12 out of 51 when I had KK 6 handed (while I was third in chips) and ran it into AA (while someone else had JJ). The player with the AA also happens to be 2nd in chips, so at the conclusion of the JJ < KK < AA hand, player with the AA rocketed to the top with 2.5x the chips of the player in second place.
On to Sunday, where I got into the miniFTOPS main event, ran my stack up to about 3x starting stack (started with 7500), before losing JJ < AA again to drop back down to 10K or so, and finally went out when I shoved Ax OTB with about 10xBB into AQ, flopping a gutshot but not getting there.
Finally, PCA satellite. Doubled up early with my TT cracked JJ, blinded down for awhile, and misplayed KQ on a K73 8 board to a slowplayed AK. That hand dropped me down back down to roughly starting stack (3K) where I grinded my short stack for about an hour and a half. I did get lucky a couple of times while I was short to stay in the tourney (AQ = AK on J J 3 8 3 for example) but eventually busted in 240th place or so (40 gets seat, 750~ entrants) with first my JJ lost to AT all-in preflop. And last hand had me shoving 55 into a limpers 33 and he flops a 3.
I believe this weekend will probably be the last weekend in which I attempt to try to satellite into both PCA and Aussie Millions, meaning a trip to the Bahamas and Australia will have to wait at least another calendar year. For now..Monte Carlo April 2010 is the goal.
