A special thanks to Chris Depa for helping me make my blog look fancy with pictures and stuff.
Today is the last of the 3 first days... there were 3,180 entrants over Day 1A and Day 1B and 2,114 remain. They'll play tomorrow, Tuesday, while survivors from today's Day1C have an off day.
So I read through my blog from last year and tried to pick up some tips for myself. What I learned is that I got pretty lucky - I had Aces hold up twice, flopped a set, and flopped a straight when my opponent couldn't put down three jacks. But over the course of 4 days, I really only had a couple big hands and most of them came from getting dealt a premium hand to start. So, lesson for today - only play premium hands.
If I do get down early, I'll have to remember that the size of the chip stacks at the table are disproportionate to the blind levels... which is to say that even if I feel like my chip stack is large or small compared to others, it's still significantly larger than what would get pressured from the blinds and antes, which will start very small.
I noticed I also picked up a decent amount of chips with positional raises last year - betting marginal hands from button or just off the button... I'm going to keep that in mind this year, but I think that it's more effective later in the day and tournament when antes create a bigger pot and more experienced players remain.
Sage advice for the tournament:
1. I need luck and patience... and luck I can't control.
2. Today is just about pole position for Wednesday; I can't win anything early, only lose.
If I can remember those two things, I should be ok today.
Lastly, I want to congratulate Adam Pabst for making it to the second day of the tournament - Adam won my World Series of Poker League this year and is the group's representative in the tournament. Adam played in Day1A on Saturday and flew out Saturday morning... except his plane was delayed.
They boarded... they sat around. They deplaned... they sat around. They boarded... they sat around. They finally took off from Chicago - right about the time Adam's chip stack for the $10,000 poker tournament started getting blinded off in Las Vegas. He finally got to his table about 3:30 and was down about $3K - $4K... but got rolling with a pair of tens turned set early and finished the day with $40K in chips.
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