So I started out day 2 busting on the fifth hand in a spot where I stacked off in an inexcusable spot. It was just one of those hands where everything told me I should fold and I KNEW it was a fold and somehow I still managed to put all my chips into the pot. I really hate when I do dumb stuff like that especially live because I pride myself especially live where you have so much information at your disposal and time to think things thoroughly through. The hand occurred at 500-1k and I have 36k to start the hand, Allan Baekke opens to 2,2 from lp and I make it 5,8k from the sb with JJ, obviously with no plan of ever folding. Unfortunately the big blind makes it 11,8 and Allan quickly folds and after a couple of minutes I decide to stick it in vs QQ for an early exit on day 2.

I think it's pretty clear that my range for sticking it in that spot should be exactly QQ+AKo+ against that guy and deviating to either side is gonna be a fairly big mistake, oh well can't play well all the time unfortunately :(

The good news was that I busted in time for the 2k sideevent where I had a pretty good table with the only good players being Tom Marchese and Gray31 and although a few good players came and went during the day I grinded my 12k stack up to 60k before calling a big riverbet with QQ on 88499 vs 99 where I don't think I could ever fold to having a shortstack going into the last level. Thankfully I got QQ otb vs Dan Heimillers AJs in a 70bb pot where he called my 4b jam and with just a few hands left to go of the day he hoodflatted my 5bet where I had KK and folded to a small bet on the flop. When all was said and done I ended the day with 96k with avg being 56k and 26 players remaining (12 got paid). Unfortunately nothing went my way on day 2 where I had to fold Ad3d on a AxKd4d6x4x board in a 3way pot. Soon after I got seated next to Antesvante who is an excellent Swedish tournament reg (he won EPT Copenhagen last season) where it gets folded to us blind vs blind at 800-1600-200 where I have about 80k chips and he covers me by a ton. I raise to 4k with 97o (id often fold this vs a player of his caliber but I think it plays well enough esp with the big antes) and he flats. Flop comes 9h9x4h and I bet 4,8k which he calls pretty quickly.

Turn is an offsuit 8 and I bet 7,8k this time which he calls again. River is the Kh and I bet 11,8k with the intention of folding to a shove, unfortunately he calls with Jh8h and I lose a huge chunk of my stack on a hand that plays itself. With 13 left I am the shortest stack but Tom Marchese busts to burst the bubble and I double up with KQo vs 88 on the very next hand! with 10 left we are playing five handed and I have 25bbs and jam AJo over an open but unfortunately I run into JJ and when the board runs out Jxx i'm out.

It is a little disappointing that I am running so bad in the endgame of live tournaments (my record looks like this: 10th,4th,5th,8th,14th and 12th) but at the same time I have been really fortunate to run well enough to get all those deep runs so it's hard to complain. I'm learning something new every time im playing live though so hopefully il take one down sooner or later. Im off to Cannes tommorow before I head back home for the WCOOP grind.