Day Off

As most of you may have realized, today was a rest day for me while the Day 1A/B players played their Day 2.  I slept in, worked a normal day from “home”, and headed to the Rio in spite of not having to be there to kill some time in the evening.  I went to the Amazon Room’s feature table area where there is seating room for spectators and hung out as the players did their thing.  While there, I chatted with several other players who were also killing time before playing Day 2C tomorrow.  One was a business owner from Louisiana, who I talked to for a while about poker and about life.  Later on, Jason Koon ended up on the secondary feature table along with Matt Berkey.  Koon is one of my favorite players, and Berkey had built a big stack early on day 1, so it was a treat to watch them from the rail as they played.  Koon is a very talkative guy and I was close enough to hear most of the conversation he was having with his table-mates; it was a cool experience for me.  I also brushed up on optimal 25 big blind strategy, as that will be the amount of chips I start the day with tomorrow.  I’m extremely comfortable with this stack size, having found myself short in many tournaments over the years as it is often impossible to keep up with the increasing blinds.  Going to get a nice 9 hours of sleep now and prepare to run it up!