The dream just ended......

What a fun day it was.

I started slow....by choice. Played tight and very few hands, but as the evening got going, the hands I did play, I won. At the four hour dinner break, out of 833 entrants only 684 were still playing and the average chip stack was 3650. I had 655o. Not bad!!!!!!!

Levels 5 & 6 were not so kind. The hands I won were split pots (usually on the river.) and I took a couple of tough beats. But I got to the end of level 6 still with 2400 chips and we were down to 400 players. The blinds were 200/400 and both of my blinds got raised with lousy cards. So on the 2nd time around I was down to 1800. the guy too my right busted out and they moved Men "The Master" to that seat. I treaded water for the next 30 minutes. On my next big blind I got all my chips in (even though Gabe told me to never go all-in.....guess I should have listened!!!!!) with pocket aces. I was head up against 1 player. Flop came K,J,7 giving him a pair of kings against my aces. The turn was a harmless 9 and the river was a 3 which seemed harmless enough until I realized that it paired a 3 in his hand giving him two pairs which knocked out my Aces. Oh well.

Not sure if I could be any more tired. Lights out!!!!!!

Here we go.......

I'll be headed to the Rio in the next couple of hours. I spent the day there yesterday and got a good feel for my way around. Saw a bunch of my favorite players including, Doyle and Pam Brunson, Men "the Master," Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, David Singer, Clonie Gowen, Jen Tilley (sure, see counts!!!,) Billy Gazes, and many others.

My event begins at 5 PM today (local time) and could run for more than 10 hours. I've done my best over the last couple of days trying to get off of east coast time. I finally called it a day at 4 AM this morning.

I'll leave my cell on for the next few hours. After that, I'll post as soon as my day is over. Hopefully that will be very early tomorrow morning. If I survire Day 1, Day 2 will kick off at 3 pm on Wednesday. Here's hoping!!!!!!