Decided to give the old blog a quick update since we are finally at the crust of the pizza which is this WSOP Main Event. I played my day 1 yesterday, like I stated in the last entry. On monday, I actually arrived at the Rio at 10 am, as I wanted to beat the "Space Mountain" type of lines that any late registration for a tournament can get. Day 1c had over 3,000 players competing, which I am sure you can imagine what kind of wait it must have been. After getting my golden ticket for the price of $10k, I headed over to my favorite breakfast spot and had my usual mexican omelet.
After getting back to the condo and cleaning up I headed back over to the Rio to start my day. Even though this is my 7th Main Event, I still get butterflies like I am sure everyone except for Phil Ivey does. I actually wrote out a complete game plan for the situations that I thought would face early in the day. Most of my notes consisted of the instructions to "stay in position(last to act) and to limit my calling of other opponents". In my recent experience in the Main, early on many of the straight forward players usually have the hand they are representing and it is easy to fold in many key situations.
My day 1 went pretty smooth in all regards. My table consisted of 8-9 other players depending on the time of day because of the fact that you start the day 10 handed. To my immediate left was a guy from Bulgaria that played extremely well and 2 positions away from him was a younger internet fella. On the other side of the table were 3 pros in the 8,9, and 10 seats respectively. I had position on these guys since I was in the 2 seat and my only threat was the Bulgarian that reraised my opening bets quite a bit. Like I said in my notes, I didn't want to play o.o.p. and pretty sure I folded every time he reraised me as I decided to leave my pride in my backpack.
After 4 levels I had ~ 39k units with 2 hrs left in day 1. This was somewhat frustrating as you want to have as many chips as possible. Fortunately it was also in my game plan to stay patient and just wait for good spots to get my chips in the pot. I was able to win quite a few hands at the end of level and wound up finishing the day with 58k, which is over 100 big blinds going into wednesday. I can't complain about my first day of the ME as I survived with a nice stack and ready to move through tomorrow onto day 3 on thursday.
Well I said this would be a quick one. I am probably gonna see a movie tonight here at the Palms. A couple of my friends want to go see Ted and have offered to "treat" me. The only problem is that I have seen this movie twice and cannot imagine sitting thru it again. I think I am gonna go check out the new Pixar movie "Brave". Fitting title as I want to continue on in this Event. Pixar has not made a bad movie yet so at least I have a good chance not to be disappointed like so many other films have this summer. Time to go, I can't wait to update this thing with news on continuing to day 3. Until then, good bye and thank you for reading.
SK
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