Busto in $1500 PL Hold-em event

This event wasn't in my original schedule but I needed something to do, so I decided to play it. I think I might play a few more of these events but I feel people really don't know how to play pot-limit in general. For some reason, they feel they need to bet pot every time they want to bet, and this leads to them getting involved in a big pot every hand they play. If you can get some cards or make a big hand, you can slow play and extract a ton of value from people. As for my tournament, things didn't really go that well. I lost about a third of my 3k starting stack with Q5 on a AQQ23 board to a guy with QJ who never once raised for value, just check-called all the way down. This same guy asked earlier how to make a pot-sized bet. That hand knocked me down to around 2100 and I later managed to get it all in with AK against a guy with 175 chips less than me that had AQ. I'm sure you can guess that he sucked out and hit a queen, thus leaving me with a depressing 175 chips. Somehow I manage to triple the next hand with K2 and then double the hand after that. This put me around 1200 which I ran up to about 2k before our table broke. I got moved to another table with a few good internet players (think I might know who they are based on some overheard conversations but still just a guess) and Tony Cousineau (sp?), who I know I have heard of but wasn't sure what he had done. I managed to double my 2k stack with a set of 8's and got as high as 5500 until I had to fold to a couple of reraises preflop. With about 10 bb's left, I got it in with JJ against QQ and good game me. I feel I can do well in these events but I keep losing a big pot early, which basically handcuffs me from playing pots while the blinds are still low.

I am not playing any more WSOP events til Wednesday, so until then I am going to do some homework, run some errand, and maybe play one of the $300 deep stack events at the Venetian. Oh, I also played online cash games last night for about 1.5 hours (long for me) and ended up +$225. I am going to keep playing the online cash games when I can to help make back some of the money that I've dropped on these WSOP events. I plan on taking some pictures of the condo and posting those, so stay tuned for that...