Mental Preparation (Part 2)

Im pleased to say i've recovered fully from Day 1A and i actually feel fresher this morning than i did on Day 1A. Basically just slept and chilled out yesterday and i feel ready for the onslaught.

Its just over 3.5 hours before play resumes, i know stackwise i have a good table as we had to move to our new drawn table with our bagged up chips before we left the room on Day 1A. It didnt appear there are many if any much above my stack which would be nice because the table i finished on had 2 x 80k stacks as well as 3 or 4 others on 25k + . Saying that im on table 160 and if i last it will break into other tables within a few hours.

Strategy is pretty much as follows, use the first 30 mins to an hour to watch the table trying not to do anything silly but still looking for good opportunites to steal the blinds with position. After an hour or 2 , take a note of stack and the sort of cards im getting and decide whether to up a gear by making a few plays or not where possible. The one thing i dont wanna do is blind down without playing many hands now i have spare chips above the average stack i must use them to try and at least sustain my chip stack regardless of the cards im getting dealt.

Day 2A played yesterday and players dropped like flies so assuming we play the same number of levels (which i think is almost a dead cert for fairness) its a much shorter day (if i last the whole day :) ). There were only 570 left from the 1637 players that started yesterday. They only played 4.5 levels in the end so thats only 9 hours of poker compared to the 12 hours on Day 1A. Obviously that doesnt include breaks but if i last the whole day we should finish about midnight. I would expect the average stack at the end of play to be around 75000 so this is an obvious target i would like to exceed if i survive, as ive said all along making the following day is not a target for me, making the money with an above average stack and giving myself a chance to go deep into the money is.