Victorian Champs ... a summary

So-so this time around in the Victorian Champs.
Obviously one of my main disappointments with the series was that there was no HORSE event ... and the Pokernews Cup (which is the next big series at Crown) also doesn't have a HORSE event! Looks like the next local event is the Aussie Millions HORSE, which is quite a way off.
I find HORSE events to be great value, not so much because I am great at the 5 games (though I do feel I am improving the more I play them), but rather that most of the players in these events have little idea about most of the games (ESPECIALLY the three Stud games), and even when they do, they do not make the necessary adjustments for the game being limit (rather than no limit or pot limit) and being in a tournament situation.

As for the events themselves, I played in 4 & cashed in 1 (which broke my streak of 2 cashes in each major tourney series for the year).
I managed to final table the $230 PLO, finishing a disappointing 7th, when my aces were cracked. The finish was even more disappointing considering that the two people who I considered to be the two best players at the table managed to finish 8th & 9th.
I also played the $230 NLH, the $120 Double Flop holdem (on the morning of the PLO final table - they stopped it at about 4:30am & decided that the final table would be played the following afternoon) and the $550 repecharge event.

Overall I felt I played OK for the most part, although I should have been more aggressive in the $550 event - I managed to make it to the final level of the first day with a short stack & gambled with a weak ace at the wrong time ... and was doing OK the second time around in the repecharge when I made a correct read, but pushed my stack in on the river, where my opponent hit his straight & snap-called, rather than on the turn, when he might have let his draw go. Oh well ... live & learn I guess!