After initially buying my way directly into the WCOOP $530 Omaha Hi/Lo tournament, I subsequently won my way as well. There weren't too many Omaha Hi/Lo tournaments last night on Poker Stars, so I decided to participate in the tournament instead.
The tournament got off to a decent start; but I immediately noticed some people double stacked; then I noticed an atypical raise, re-raise, capping the pot on multiple streets with multiple players. A few hands later, the blinds went up. Then I realized: "Oh Crap...I just entered a turbo, re-buy plus add-on tournament." Needless to say, I wouldn't have played if it, if I had known it was a turbo tournament, let alone a re-buy plus add-on tournament. After all, I wasn't that hard up to play Omaha tonight.
I told my table that I was in the tournament by accident. I think they assumed this meant I was going to play stupid -- so every time I was in a pot, multiple people came along with me. If I raised, they would re-raise; if I called, they would raise. Little did they know it's not in my nature to give away the tournament, even if I entered it by accident: I am inherently a competitive person. So it was a huge mistake on their part, to compete with me in a pot...assuming I was trying to give away my chips.
As a result of their misguided assumptions, I amassed a large chip stack that carried me through -- even though I refused to re-buy (to start double-stacked) or add-on (to get more chips at the break). Regardless, I cruised right along.
The next thing I know, I can see there are only four tables left; then three -- as people were dropping like flies. At this point, I had a huge stack, but the blinds were still going up every five minutes. I folded one very marginal hand, even though I knew the blinds were getting so large that I would barely be able to make it through them if I didn't play a hand. As it turned out, I would have scooped the pot with the Broadway straight -- but alas, I didn't play it. This turned out to be a huge mistake, because I assumed I had time to wait for a hand, as the blinds had just passed me. By the time the blinds came back around, they had gone up twice, and were now about to take 2/3 of my stack -- and they did.
I managed to recover from the blinds, and scooped a huge pot and took two people out in the process. This helped me make it to the final table -- when finally the people dropped every one or two hands. In the end, I made it in the top 5, and won my way into the WCOOP on a single $15 buy-in.