Monte Carlo Satellite Failure

As you can tell from the title, i won't be going to Monte Carlo, well at least not yet anyway. Out of a total of 200 runners, which made for the top 7 taking the seat to Monte Carlo and 8th-24th getting $650. I unfortunately only managed to finish a respectable but useless 44th, which has the precise payout of $0!

Played pretty solidly especially throughout the first two hours, where i turned my 2500 chips into 5000 after the first hour and then to an additional high of 7500 after 2 hours. This was all without really even showing a hand down and i feel i selectively bossed my table untill mid way through the third hour i was moved table. As it does tend to be a major negative i wasn't happy and even less happy to have 3 very big stacks at it.

Anyway, the third hour provided no cards at all, impossible to even get a flop with one of the two big stacks raising every pot. Made one bad call to lose half my stack, was really not paying enough attention and AJs never could have been good in that particular spot, that was made up for by finally flopping a set and having someone bet into me with ace high!

The fourth hour started with 49 players and it was always likely to get us down to close to the money as the blinds were up to 200/400. Didn't play a hand for close 30 mins with exception of a stolen couple of blinds, down to 5k at this stage and average is nearly 11k but still remain in 34th of the 44 left so by no means in the absolute shit. Pick up AK utg and raise it to 1400, (prob too much) but i didn't really want a race and get put all in by a good player, instinct makes me call and although in hindsight i probably shouldn't have called and kept my 4K but i thought i was certainly a race and the pots were laying over 6-4, anyway i call he turns over kings and of course despite the straight draw on the flop i'm gone with no help

As is the way in these satellites with such big things at stake the dissapointment is immense to say the least, even the $650 would have been nice (which i definitely should have had) but i'll keep on cracking and try to qualify in a satellite next week.

On to the $750,000 guarenteed as well as a $50,000 freeroll courtesy of Party Poker, if you wanna get in on that click the link on the right!

Yours in poker!
len