[Session results: A good run in the $11 Mini Saturday KO]
When I logged in this session there were only about 13,000 players at the tables on Pokerstars. I thought those would be the best players, the regulars.
I played the $11 Mini Saturday KO. In that tour, the first table was full of 5 calling stations and maniacs, with VIPs > 34 (one's VPIP was 58). At one point somebody went all-in with J8s. I folded, but he ended up making a straight. I doubled up from one other of the calling stations, when I hit a flop flush, against his top pair J (he was holding KJo), and he went all-in. I ended up busting him when he bluffed with a busted flush draw, and I got huge stacked with 287xBB.
Unfortunately, I was later moved to a new table, where I had no info on the players. In the new table there were only 2 loose players. I got dealt no good hands for a long time, so I didn't make any chips. My stack started dwindling down. Finally I got lucky and flopped a straight flush, with which I kicked out one player.
I was doing well in the late stages ITM, when the SB went all-in. I thought that was my chance to double up, and I called with ATs. He had AA, and I lost a big pot, leaving me with 13xBB. It was that hand that shuttered my dreams. I lost about 10 hands later, going all in with a J2s...
Nevertheless, this is my best run in an $11 tour. Things are getting better!