Aussie Millions - Event 7 $1650 NLHE Bounties

I just busted out in 63rd in the $1650 bounty event. There were 450 starters and 40 people would be paid so I got relatively close to making the money but I was never really in the hunt to be honest. I was in really bad shape at the first break (20 big blinds), recovered to be in pretty awesome shape at the second (60+ big blinds), but fell back to average by the third (25 big blinds). In the end I ended up busting with 25 big blinds. It was folded to me in the small blind with the blinds at 400/800/75 and I opened to 2400 with J7o. I’d been at this table for less than two orbits and had only played one hand thus far so I thought my image was unknown enough to make this steal really profitable. The big blind, an absolute cardrack who had picked up AA twice during the time I had been there (and had stacked KK with one of them), called after asking for my stack size. The flop came J42 all diamonds and I had the 7d. With 5400 in the pot and about 18500 behind the stacks were pretty perfect for a check-raise all-in so I checked and shoved when he bet. He snapped and turned over JJ for top set. The turn came the Qc and the river brought the so-close-yet-so-far Qd.

I’m currently deciding whether to play cash games or the $1150 Super Satellite to the Aussie Millions Main Event tomorrow. I hate wasting money on satellites (and believe me I’ve wasted a lot on PCA and AM satellites already this year) but the tournament should be pretty juicy as it’s basically the feature event for tomorrow (the only other one on is the $100,000 event which obviously isn’t open to the majority of us commoners). It’s also on a Saturday, starts at the rather friendly time of 1230PM, and is on the day before the first Day 1 flight of the main event. This means that there should be more random people who are trying their hand at glory and the field should be softer as a result. Yes, I know I’m basically trying to talk myself into playing it, but at least I have good, sound, logical reasons right?!

Anyway, I think I’ll sleep on it and decide when I wake up. Night.