End of Day 2

All,

It is 2:29am and I am writing a quick blog before I head to be after a 14 hour day of poker. we started the day today at noon and I was in around 171st place out of 240 with the money starting at 100th place. I grinded my way all day making sure to take advantage when I had large hands. I built my stack up to around 70k by the 2nd break and was cruising along when I went completely card dead.

For rounds 3 and 4 of the day (each round is 90 minutes) I did not play one hand. I think the best 2 cards I saw was K9 offsuit. Everyone at my table was raising and re-raising. I looked for opportunities to steal pots but with all the raising there wasnt really any opportunity. So I just slowly lost my stack at about 40k we were only 4 from the money as we sat at 104 players for about an hour and I slowly went down to a little over 17k. Then we lost 3 and were only 1 away from the money. and then this hand came up.

I am the first person to act and I look down at QQ as you know this was not good in the WSOP so I thought maybe it would be better here. But I had a decision do I take the chance to double up and put myself in good shape. would everyone at the table think that the only hand I would move in with such a short stack and one from the money would be AA. So I pushed all in. and everyone instantly folded, so I picked up an additional 8100 in the blinds and antes which made it easy to cruise into the money. But it didnt stop there as the very next hand after we were in the money and at 99 players. I am now in the big blind. 3 people fold and a guy in middle position raises to 5k and everyone folds around to the button who declares all-in for 17k. I look down at AK of spades and need to make a move so I go all in for the 25K I have and the first raiser calls. 1st player has JJ second player has QQ and as I said I had AK. the flop comes A57 Turn 2 and river Ace. so I knock out one player and triple up. so now I am sitting at 75K; the very next hand I get pocket Aces in the small blind but everyone folds but the button who calls and I rasie and everyone folds.

I ended the day with 108K and there are 57 players left. we start at noon tomorrow and play down until there are only 6 players left.

Wish me luck and until next time...