Wynn Main Event

I came into the Wynn main event with a lot of confidence and was very excited to see almost 250 people in the 5K event. My table was ok, as Scott Seiver, Cody Slaubaugh, and Evan McNiff were all on my left. But every other spot at the table looked like a mark, so I was hoping to stay out of the way and just pick up pots against the marks. But before I knew it Scott was out after a bit of a spew and then Cody got 5 outed to get eliminated. And to top it off Evan was short stacked and playing tight. I stepped on the gas a bit and chipped down to 18K. Evan doubled up to put us at around the same in chips when the following hand occured. Dan Alspach raised the button to 600 at 100/200 25 ante. I had Q9dd and called from the small. Evan pops it from the big to 2100. Dan folded and I had a tough spot. I know Evan is probably messing around, but I also know he is very capable of calling off here with a very marginal hand if I 4 bet. I decide to call looking for a good spot to c'raise all in. The flop was Q65 rainbow with one diamond. I check with intentions of ripping, but he checked behind. The turn was a 6h putting a full rainbow on board. I checked again with intentions of check calling two streets. He bet 3100 and I called as planned. The river was 4d and I checked, this time Evan went all in. It was about 1.2x pot, but my plan changed the longer I thought about it. He looked confident and I had shown that I wanted to call him down light earlier in the tourny. So....I folded. I managed to chip up to 35K when the following hand happened against Dan Alspach. He raised to 1K at 150/300 25 ante and I found J7hh on the button. I called, cause I felt I knew how to outplay him post flop. The flop was nice QsJc7c giving me bottom two pair. He bet 3K and I made it 11K of his remaining 19K. He quickly pushed and showed KcQh for top pair. The turn killed me as the Qc hit causing me to draw dead. The pot pushed me down to 11K. The very next hand I found AJhh. After a limper I raised to 1100. Button, SB, BB and the limper all called putting 5500 in the pot and about 10k behind for me. The flop was Qh10c8s giving me a double gutter. They checked to me and I bet 4200 to pot committ myself. The SB minraised and I knew I was in trouble, but I pushed in my remaining stack. He called with KQo leaving me 10 outs for a win. I bricked out and left the tournament not happy.
On the up side I have taken some time off lately. I was able to hang out with a family I used to work for back in college. Ben had just turned 21 last year and had never been to Vegas. I haven't seen him or his Mom since my wedding. Also I got to watch a lot of basketball. All my brackets are terrible and to top it off I made a bunch of sports bets that all went the way of brackets.
We have some friends coming in from NC on Thursday. We have a bunch of stuff planned and cant wait to show them around.

Justin "robert07" Young