Freeze - Day 3 Approaching

Although I certainly didn't play like a rock during day 2 of the Main Event, nothing, I mean absolutely nothing had happened to my chip stack at the end of the day. I start day 3 with 95,000 chips to play with which compared to last years' 600,000 is petty cash.

So who to blame for my stalling? Pretty much myself! Let's look at what happened:

I was never in danger of busting as my stack was bouncing up and down around the 100k mark up to 120, down to 80, up to 130, down to 85 and so on and so forth.

Retrospectively, I have to admit that I was playing too many hands, especially during some of the last levels and if you don't have the goods to back up your raises, it simply becomes too easy to come over the top.

I tried getting hit with the deck but the dealers constantly missed me J. I did have Kings one time during the second level (easily killed by my opponent's straight) and the occasional AK but for the most part my re-raises were made with much lesser holdings such as J9, AQ or K9s.

I didn't feel super comfortable and maybe was a little tilted towards the end.

All that said, there is still a long way to go in the tournament and I have plenty of chips to play with compared to the blinds and the average count (104,000 I think).

More updates coming soon

Gus

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