I finished Day 1D with 69550 in chips and will be playing Day 2B today. I'll be posting updates on twitter again, link is in my last blog, and it should appear on the CRWSOP feed as well. I don't have much live tourney experience and in my brief history had never made any sort of day 2. We played for 10 hours on day 1 and it was quite a grind, as of late I haven't really played more than 3 hours in any day online. I was pretty carddead for the first 4 levels and floated between 20k and 35k the whole time then. In level 5 things started to go my way some. I had about 33k when I pick up AA in middle position. David Williams shoves UTG for about 5200 at 200/400 and I decide to flat call. The player behind me made it 15k in an attempt to iso, I shoved for 18 more, and he called with JJ. David had QTss, flop As9x6s, turn and river brick brick, I win a pot of about 75k. I won another nice pot when I raised AQdd in the hijack, called a 3bet from the BB, who was a tight young Asian guy. Flop AQT rainbow, he checks and I decide to check back for a couple reasons, although it's not my default. Turn 7, he checks, I bet 4500, he calls. River 8, he checks, I bet 10k, he calls and mucks when I show. I then put a nasty suckout on a shorter stack who started the hand with about 11k, he raised button I call BB with KTo, flop T83cc, I c/r his 2300 bet putting him allin, he has ATss, turn K river blank, ups. I was around 100k then but lost a few pots, most notably one where I raise AsKd in the CO, BB (kinda weird passive Australian guy) calls, flop A75dd, he leads for about 3200 into 2400, I call. Turn Td, he checks, I bet 5k, he calls. River 8o, he checks, I bet 7k, he tanks for about 30 seconds and calls with 77. Maybe too thin but I hadn't seen him showdown after leading flops like this so I thought AJ/AQ were a big part of his range, and he wasn't much of a folder so I expected calls from those.

My Day 1 table was tougher than I expected based on all the stories from my friends of previous WSOPs, there were no truly bad players at my table all day, a few who played a little quirky and suboptimally, but as shown above even they gave me problems and I made some mistakes against them. I am excited to get to a new table that is hopefully softer, I saw my draw and aside from Hasan Habib and Matt Brady, who won Aruba 2008, noone had much of a live tourney resume, which should bode well. Time to start getting ready, check Twitter for updates. Good luck to everyone else playing today!