I arrived in the Bahamas 2 days ago; a 3hour flight is soooo much nicer than the typical 7-12h of travel to get to an EPT. I'm staying in the coral tower with Stevejpa and I was kind of relieved(at first) that it wasn't too warm out since I wore jeans/a hoodie on the plane. Now I wish it were warmed(Bahamas is close to Florida, and we were watching Florida weather reports, and today will be a 50 or 100 year low temperature in some cities).

Anyways, we dropped by the Stars party and I was able to change my starting date from 1b to 1a which I prefer quite a bit. I got to bed at a reasonable hour and slept ok before the tournament. My starting table was definitely well above average but not spectacular(I doubt there were many spectacular tables... the field seems relatively tough). A few people showed up late so we were 5 or 6 handed a lot of the day. Average age was probably about 22 and almost everyone at the table probably makes money at poker. A couple hands in, DPeters who was the only person I recognized 3bet AA, and called a checkraise and called down on a Q4226 board with aces to lose 2/3 of his stack and then ran AK into KK to bust in like 15 minutes which was definitely good for me since he was on my left. I didn't really have any interesting hands until like 45 minutes in when this Canadian limit holdem player opened UTG 6 handed, I called JJ in the SB, BB called as well.

Flop: 442r, check, check, he bets 750 at 900, I make it 2150 with the intention of checking most turns and value betting most rivers if called. He called pretty quick which from a LHE guy really made me think he had something fairly marginal more often than not, like a middle pair , maybe occasionally a float with like 65, or A5 or something. And obviously occasionally a bigger pair or like 22, A4s etc
Turn: 6, check, he bet 3100 at 5200, I called planning to fold most rivers since I figured after calling my hand looks pretty solid and I don't think many people will try turning like 77 into a bluff or something.
River: J, check, he bets 11k at 11.4k, I jam about 13k more and double to 59k after he calls with 64s

After that I don't really have many big hands for the rest of the day, I had 2 interesting river decisions but other than that it was a lot of winning small pots to get up to about 95k, before losing a few hands at the end of the day to have 79k to finish

Anyways, the 2 river decisions
I raise HJ with AQss to 800 at 150/300 Jeff Madsen calls in the BB kind of weirdly(I think he was considering a reraise or a fold, more likely a fold I think)
Flop: A94cc, he check calls my bet of like 1050 fairly quickly(and he had done a decent amount of checkraising postflop so I think he has a FD less than most people)
Turn: 3c, check, I check behind
River: 2, he bets 3100 and 3900, I have no idea what he has exactly but opt to fold just since I doubt he'd try bluffing me off an Ace, and if he did think he could bluff me off like JJ or something I think he'd almost always just bet less.

The next one was against the same guy who I doubled through earlier with JJ, and I raised the CO to 800 with A9o, he called the BB.
Flop: Ac7s5s, he double checks his cards and leads 1175
Now when he double checks, he almost always probably has an offsuit hand almost always where he's wondering whether he has a spade. Obviously some people will do this as a trick with like a set or a flush draw or something but I felt this opponent had the mentality that a lot of pretty good tourney players do where they don't want to get too FPSy with the levelling especially early in a tournament. I hadn't really thought about this much at the time, but if he has a spade I can probably slightly discount the As since he can see the Ac on board.
I elected to call with the intention of calling down a fair bit
Turn: 9s, he bets 2375 at about 4300 and I elected to call. I feel like even though I've discounted sets and flushes a fair bit, theres not much reason to call since I doubt he's calling me light very often at al
River: 8c, and he bets 5200 at 9100
This got kind of lame... I think a lot of the worse hands he could value bet would all slow down, I don't think he'd turn all that many hands into bluffs but on the other hand he just seemed like the type of guy who wouldn't do a ton of bluffing. I thought it was pretty likely he had like 6s6 or JsT Ah6s or something and had backed into a straight but felt that even though he could easily have any of these hands, theres still plenty opportunity for him to continue all his bluffs after the 4 straight hit, so figured I'd have to call pretty much anything I get to the river with that beats his bluffs. I called and he had QhJs.

After that as mentioned I didn't do much the last 3 hours of the day. I was hungry at the last break and got a slice of pizza which ended up giving me food poisoning or something similar. I'm so glad this happened when I have a 1 day break since if I had to play again today I'd be so miserable. I woke up almost once and hour last night to go clear my system and today I feel super weak and tired and really wouldn't want to have to play poker for 9 hours.

Average stack is probably like 50k so I'm in pretty good shape, it looks like this will be a pretty huge tournament so I'm gonna try focussing my rungood.