PokerStars Sunday Hundred Grand

Last week I played in PokerStars Sunday Hundred Grand for the first time. It has $100,000 guaranteed prize pool but registration usually maxes out for a $200,000 prize pool. The buy-in is $10+$1 and there is usually 20,000 players. I think I counted 20 - $2.20 Satellites throughout the day to this tournament and Sit N Go Satellites throughout the day. I decided to try a $2.20 MTT satellite on Thursday and won a seat my first try. The Sat was pretty easy to get through with 115 entries and 20 seats to be won. Finally Sunday came and I was ready. Right off the gun I started getting big hands. I got a major chip stack quick. The play was weak but not as donkish as I heard. Then the deck got cold. I wasn't getting any cards and the blinds were getting big. I was patient and stole a couple of blinds to keep alive. Finally with blinds at 600/1200 and me with 4670 chips I was dealt pocket fives in early position. There was about 3300 players left and top 3000 got paid at least $20. Players were dropping at about 100 per minute and players at my table were stalling badly. I probably should of folded because a minimal cash would of given me 1000% ROI but I decided to go for it all. I pushed, and one guy calls. Sweet a race. NOPE!!! Cards get flipped over and I see his pocket Aces. I finished the tournament in 3277th place.

I'm going to miss this week but I'll defiantly be playing in this again. I played 2 more MTT Satellites this week with no luck. I might try a SnG sometime coming up. This tournament is weak and should be pretty easy to carry a positive ROI% in the long run. I'll try 3 or 4 satellites a week and should be able to get in with that. If that doesn't work I'm going to just deposit the extra $44 a month to buy in directly. My goal is to start playing these weekly and make a final table this year. With my level of play and a decent run of cards that should be possible. A year would cost $572 of buy-ins and the final table usually pays between $1,000 and $20,000. Sounds good to me.