Day 1B

Well today went better than the first day.  Hung around the starting stack of 20k for the first 4 hours, then at the 600/1200 level there was a late position raise and a call and I was in the big blind with about 25k with JTs and figured I had a lot of fold equity so I shoved, the raiser called and the other guy folded AQo, flop came AA7, turn Q and I think I need a K to stay alive, and I start walking away when the river comes a Q, but then like 2 seconds later I realize it's a chopped pot since we both have 2 pair with a J kicker, so obviously I come back to the table.

In the next half hour or so I win a couple flips and steal some pots to get my stack to around 80k at 1k/2k, when a mid position younger player limps in, the small blind make it 5500, I make it 14k from the big bilnd with JJ and now the limper makes it like 40k and he has me covered.  I think he is obviously pretty strong here a lot of the time but I just got the feeling that he had some weak hands in his range possibly, I'm not sure, so anyway after thinking for a minute or 2, I get it in with him and he has KK, but luckily I hit a J on the turn and double up to 160k.  I chipped up to like 190k at one point but then lost a flip for about 50k towards the end of the day and ended day 1 with 136,500.  Average stack should be around 100k with maybe about 150-170 people left when we start day 2 at 11am on Monday.

I would have blogged sooner but I was dead tired when I got home after going to dinner with my wife and fell asleep at 9pm within 5 minutes of getting home.  So now obviously it's 3am and I can't sleep.