Played a multi-table on Stars last night, 900+ entries. Tried to play my best as a tune up for the wsop. Accumulated a decent chip stack in the first two hours, but then blew off a bunch of chips trying to defend my big blind too aggressively. I realized I haven’t given enough thought to how I should that at the big show. Whether to defend or not defend early, and whether a defense by calling or reraising will be more advantageous. I’m not feeling too good about not having a set strategy for that while it’s already so close to game time, but I’m sure I’ll have committed to something by Thursday. I recovered my chips slowly and got back to par with less than 100 players remaining, feeling pretty good about the rest of my game. Table went tight and I went loose and stole a bunch of pots just like Harrington recommends. Then I trapped a bigger stack by putting in my standard steal-sized raise when I got pocket queens in early position. The bigger stack put in a modest reraise and I pushed all-in. He called with JcJh. By the turn, I still had top pair plus a spade flush draw, so he was down to a single out, the Jd. Of course that is the card that came on the river, and I was knocked out in 42nd. If you’re gonna get sucked out on, that’s the way to do it I guess. 43:1, nice. If nothing else, the session turned out to be a good tune-up for practicing controlling my emotions after a bad beat!