Archive for July 8th, 2009

It was a grueling day at what even PokerNews called the “Table of Death.” Except for the guy on my right, I probably had the worst seat at the table, too, with Luca Pagano on my immediate left and Isaac Baron to his left. There were a few other decent to good tourney players, too, and the soft spots were mostly just too tight, not spewing off chips. I didn’t feel like I played very well in the first few hours, but I got a second chance when I picked up AA on a very short stack and tripled up. I feel like I adapted pretty well to a tough situation after that and managed to keep growing two steps forward, one step back for the rest of the day. Mostly I am very glad it’s over and I have a few days to recover. We play again on Friday and then every day thereafter.