45 minutes left in the dinner break, so I gotta make this quick …

I finished 8th in the first 5k for $16,400. I was poised to take it down, but took a sick beat for 220k chips when ATo moved all-in and I called w/ AJs. I still had chips left after that, but not enough to make any plays with. Final hand was a coinflip that I lost.

I finished 4th in the $2000, which was a SICK final table. David “The Dragon” Pham to my right, Barry Greenstein directly to my left, Men the “Master” to his left, and JC Tran (probably the best tournament player on the planet) to his left. I got really lucky day 1 of the event, and well, the opposite happened at the final table. The only big hand I picked up was QQ and it was cracked by KQo (all-in preflop). I got paid $42,000 for that.

Today is another $5,000 tournament, and I have 97,000 chips at the dinner break. Roughly 285 people started and roughly 55 are left, which puts the average stack at around 50k, leaving me in pretty good shape.

Anyway, I feel great. Obviously I’m playing my best game, and I%uFFFDm really hoping I can take this one down.