Yesterday was crazy. Day 1c of the main event last year was nothing compared to the zoo that was the Rio yesterday. Day 2A of the Big 50 had already been rescheduled from 2pm restart to 5pm due to space issues, and it got pushed back even further to 6:15 because day 1B players were hogging all the tables. People waited hours to reenter. Not only to buy their seat, but to actually have a seat to sit in. I would guess there were upwards of 10,000 people in there at one point. As for the poker, it was an up and down day as usual. I made a bunch of good hands, and got paid on some of them. On the flip side, I was a bit of a payoff wizard myself, calling people down in ok spots only to get shown the winner multiple times. One key hand was in level 10, where I got all in against a shorter stack with 88 vs A7ss on a Qd8s5s board for a 100k pot. The turn was the Ks and the river was the 6s and he won with his flush, knocking me down to 70k. I was about a 70% favorite on the flop, but that’s poker. I later busted in level 11 after climbing back to 110k when I had turned trips against a flopped flush. He led into me small twice and I raised all in for protection/value, and for the second time in two levels I couldn’t hit one of my 10 outs on the river.
Luckily I managed to buy a seat for today before they sold out. I’ll be there at 10am to do it all over again. In other news, I think I’m catching a cold. Stress + lack of sleep are killer. At least I got a solid 8 hours last night.
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