LAPC Main Event

This post is a little late I guess, but I busted out of the main event on Sunday. Somehow I managed to make it thorough the minefield that was Saturday with about 11,000 chips from my starting stack of 20,000. We only played for just under 10 hours on saturday which is less than I thought because I was very tired. I was involved in many interesting hands on saturday and unfortunately I only won a couple of them. I was in many tough spots, and just kinda ran bad in general. I was missing flops, my opponents were hitting flops, I had bad tables and seats, and I didn't pick up enough big hands. Overall, I was lucky to get through day one, but as a short stack I only lasted about 1.5 hours on Sunday.
Usually at a starting table of these events you will have a couple very good players, a couple solid players, a couple decent players and at least one or two pretty awful players that are very good to pick up ships from. However, my starting table had to be the toughest in the tournament. Here is the lineup:
Seat 1) Brett Jungblott (Part of "the crew" from the early 90's, a known live and online player)
Seat 2) Erik Lindgren (one of the top 20 most know pros, millions in career earnings)
Seat 3) Josh Ariea (more than one WSOP final tables)
Seat 4) Jennifer Tilly (actress, wasn't great but she finished 12th in this tourney)
Seat 5) Vanessa Selbst (online instructor and very good player, at least one WSOP final table)
Seat 6) Juan Carlos Mortenson (2006 WPT champion, 8.2 million in career earnings)
Seat 7) Me (some guy who looks like he got lost on the way to the library)
Seat 8) Nenad Medic (Full Tilt poker pro, won the world poker tour at Niagara Falls, etc.)
Seat 9) Some guy who was a world poker open bracelet on and was a good player

So basically I had an all star table even though there are many younger internet type players that are sharper than some of these guys right now. I felt very comfortable among this group and after playing at this table for 8 hours before we broke, I definitely feel that I would be a long term winner against this lineup although it is full of big name pros. All in all, I enjoyed the tournament, it was a good experience, but nothing really went right, which can happen in any given tournament.

On a positive note, I've been doing very well online playing 6-handed and especially heads up. This short month is going to end up being my best to date as I expect to finish the month up in online cash games and tournaments as well as live cash games and tournaments.