Day 3

...starts in about two hours and I very much like my table draw. Although there are a ton of chips (2 225k stacks and a 465k stack) I don't really fear any of the players. Two older live guys with decent results as well as Lemke who shipped a 5k bracelet earlier this series, could be a lot worse.

I want to wish my dad good luck today. Around the same time Jerry Pollack tells us to shuffle up and deal, my dad will be entering surgery for his second hip replacement. Surgeries are always scary and even though it is a pretty standard procedure, he will be in my thoughts throughout the day.

Day 2 was very up and down, in exactly that order. After starting with 90k I built my stack to 175k with the help of a couple donations and some good aggressive play. One hand I limped button with 72cc after 4 had limped in front of me. Initial limper then put in three bets with me on flop and two more on turn to get it all in with TT on 7248 board for 60bb. A few hands later I get moved to a new table and on the second hand, the CO shoves 27bb with ATo. I wake up with AQo on button, tank call and win.

Things started to turn around however, when I opened EP with two red aces and got flatted in two spots. I lead J74 rainbow flop, initial flatter calls and second flatter overships. I call he has KJdd and it runs off dd to give him flush. Although I wasent tilted things didnt go too well after that. Lost min flatting late raise with 88 then losing only 1 bet on 642 flop v TT. Ended the day super card dead.

That will change today tho. I plan to continue to play well and start running like I do online. Who knows, maybe ill even suck out on someone. Honestly hasn't happened more than 3 times in 15 events.

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GL today me.

DS