So I played the Masters Classic, busted mid-late day 2 and played the 1k 1 rebuy as well and lost at about the same stage of the tournament(last 30 minutes of day 1). Both tournaments we pretty slow and involved a lot of me folding or playing small pots and waiting to get paid off, then not winning when that opportunity presented itself.

I don't want to be too nitty, but it seems like this whole series has kind of mistaken what a good structure is. They seem to think that having longish levels and lots of levels early will make it good but leave out many of the crucial levels late. The main event went 1k/2k, 1.5k/3k, 2k/4k, 3k/6k when most tournies would have 2 extra levels in that space which kind of sucks since overall this tournament has a pretty good structure. I feel like tournies should all just start at 100/200/25 and have about 20k starting stacks or so rather than playing like 7.5h before antes come into play like here(that said overall the structure was pretty good, just saying I could design a tournament that would last the same amount of time and would almost certainly make the vast majority of people happier).

Anyways, my starting table sucked but all the good agro players were to my right and the few soft spots were to my left which was pretty decent. I didn't really play any pots(it took until 5 hours of play before I had a hand where I fluctuated more than 10BB, and in that time I think I saw 0 showdowns) and had like 11k or so(12k starting stack). I then had 2 small pots in a span of 3 hands where I flopped top pair good kicker and an overpair but ended up folding them both to get to like 8k. I got back up to 11k but can't really remember how and then doubled JJ against QTo when a guy 4 bet me and then called a raise with TT and had someone squeeze 30BB with 88 to get up to like 31k. I then made some more nit-folds and ended the day with like 23k when average was maybe 28.

There was strangely no redraw in this tournament(which made me really regret not paying too much attention at the end of the day, since usually the type of people who really up the agression at the end of a day are the same people who will up the agression approaching the bubble etc). I didn't really do much during the day, hovered around 20k for a while, then won a couple pots in an orbit at 400/800 to get up to like 40k and be about average. At 500/1000/1k with about 80 people left I found aces on the button and raised to 2400, the chipleader in the BB who had a lot of really obvious betsizing tells(long story short I coolered him but just want to be able to say that if our hands were switched he probably would have found a way not to stack me) and 3bet to 13k which is like always something thats decent but never something great, usualy something where when he calls it off but not happily, I jammed and lost to 99 to bust. I then went home to play some online turbo tournies where I came 3rd in a PCA sat but lost a small amount on the session.

I'm rooming with Mickey (mement_mori) who made day 3 of the main event and I had a decent size piece of him so that was pretty exciting. There was a 1k 1r tourney today and I got off to a great start. I had one of the sickest tables in the room, 4k starting stack, 4k rebuy, blinds went 25/25 and then 25/50 in the rebuy period and 3 people managed to bust in the rebuy period despite none of them ever having 8k(ie all 3 of these people got stacked twice). By the end of 4 levels like 6 or 7 busted and I wass up to like 22k with average of like 10k. Mickey had doubled in the main and was now in the money so it was looking promising. I hovered around the same stack for a while as he continued winning pots and got up to about average with 15 left. My day was going downhill and I played one hand slightly bad(had T9 on a 875dd board after raising pre when villain had a little under 4x the pot, I cbet like 2/3 of pot but should have cbet like 90% of pot... it didn't really matter since he had 86dd and regardless of how I sized it he was getting the money in).

I got super card dead for ages, and then found out Mickey busted 12th, and then found TT UTG+1 at 300/600/50. I raised to 1500, BB who had piles of chips and was clearly one of the softer spots in this tournament(which btw was ridiculously good value, much much softer than the main somehow) called, Flop: QT3r, I cbet 1800 at 3800, he called
Turn: 8, check, I bet 2500 at 7600 with like 5.5k behind or so, he jammed, I called and lost to J9o

After that I went back to the room and thankfully Mickey was happy with his 12th place finish. I wouldn't want to room with me after bubbling a final table like this and was expecting him to be much more grumpy, so I'll give him props for being more enjoyable to be around than I expected.

Tomorrow is a 750 euro event which I'll play unless its sold out and then I'll play FTOPS this Saturday and Sunday... enjoying the grind