Caesars $350

I have a monster hangover after yesterday's dinner at social house followed by roulette and gin and tonic session, so this will be a shortish report.

I busted about 80th from 180 runners, with 20 spots paying.

We started with 25k starting stack, and I quickly moved to 35k by playing hands on the button and cutoff and check-raising with draws in position to get players to fold made pair hands.

However, the other end of the table was very tough, with an internet guy, a Hispanic guy, a New York banker, a Dutchman and an Israeli all of whom were aggressive. This was by far the hardest table I've played on with hardly an opening limp in sight.

I get up to 50k, after getting it all in against the Israeli with my KK holding against his AK and am off to a good start.

Then I implode against internet guy. We've played quite a few hands together so have a lively dynamic going.

At 400-800 he makes it 1800 which is his standard open UTG. I make it 4800 on the button with KsQs and he repops to 11k. I decide he is playing back at my button raise to shove for 40k effective and he calls quickly with AK and holds. And just like that I burn 40k off and am left with a 10k stack.

I put on my reliable coin flipping boots to get back to 50k pretty quickly.

I shove over a bunch of limpers at 500-1k with AT and hold against 77 to get to 20k, win a decent pot from the button with KQ in a single raised pot with multiple callers to get to 28k and then double through again at the 1k/2k level with JQ against 88 to get to 50k after flopping a flush. Our table breaks again after this.

Exit hand:

1k/3k level
UTG limps, mid position limps, SB completes and I make it 12k with KK from the BB with 38k behind, planning to shove any flop.
Mid position limper calls having me slightly covered.
Flop is Ace, Ten, 3
Pot is 33k so I shove my 38k in and our intrepid limper has A7. Splendid.
Perhaps I should have made it more than 12k, but I wasn't folding anyway so was happy to take my chances against one caller.

Meeting Mike for dinner tonight at Sinatra's, and then we'll probably play a final tournament together on Friday.