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I made my way down to the poker room, and I saw that the chip counts were posted outside.  The first thing that I noticed was that the chip leader had about T81,000.  Second place had T60,000.  I had T42,900 - so I was not too far off the pace.  Donna quickly noticed that there were about 25 people who were under T20,000.  All in all, it looked like the people were going to fall quickly today.

I was pretty disappointed that they did not reseat everybody.  My table had gone from pretty easy to tough.  I was expecting it, but having a table full of tough people is no fun.  Since I was not too far out of the chip lead, my plan of attack changed a little bit.  I planned to wait it out for premium hands, then attack.  I wanted to let everybody else knock each other out.

As the tournment started, there was some jockeying for position on my table.  I tried to stay clear.  I wanted to get to a different table.  I was at table #9, so we should be the first table to break up.  To my utter disappointment, they broke all the tables around us.  They left table #9 in tact!!!  To complicate the problem, I was card cold.  I could not catch two cards from the same planet.  The button kept going around.  Once, twice, thrice, four times.   On the fifth orbit and three levels in, I finally got two cards from at least the same country.  By this time, I was down to about T27,000.  The guy who was under the gun went all in for T7200.  The blinds were at 2000/4000 at this point, so it was not even a full raise.  I had:

With the blinds being at 2000/4000, I only had enough to last 3 more rounds.  I had to move.  There was no calling this bet.  I had to push all in.  I figured that I had the under-the-gun raiser beat.  He had to move this hand with any two cards.  So, I push all-in.  The guy to my left is in agony.  He wants to call, but this is a large portion of his chipstack.  He asks for a count, and finally says that he calls.  everybody else folds.

I had the UTG raiser beat (just as I suspect) as he shows:

The guy to my left shows:

I gotta give him credit.  He called with the best hand.  I do not know if I could have called an all-in and another re-raise all-in with a mere unsuited AK.  as the board played out, nobody matched anything and the AK held up.  I was out around 50th place.

Donna and I went and played tabled games for the next two days (and we did VERY well at Three Card Poker).