Day 3 (Tuesday)

Woke up just b4 midday so just went to the pool for 3hours ish until 3:30pm. Decided to hav quick shower shave and head off to venetian for the $550 5pm game. Made it just in time and there were 350 runners with a 40min clock and 10k starting stack. Many many key hands but i only list real key ones as im knackered:

100,200 serial limper calling station limps latish and i make it 700 from cutoff with 9,10ss. Im playing an ok stack already (over 15k anyway). bb reraises to 2000, i feel priced in to try hit a monster as he has another 6500ish behind so call. flop KsQc8s, all money goes in and he shows KK but i hit my outs and go to nice decent stack in the 25k region.

300,600 (ante 50) , ive just stole a couple of pots lately so have image. limper utg and utg+1 and i make it 3600 total. Guy next to me moves allin 30k (i have about 27k at this time) and make the call with KK and hold against AK for massive pot at that time. Funny thing about that pot was the scandie limper utg said he def thought i stealing and was gonna go allin with A10std which would have flushed, utg+1 had 88 and looked bemused and sb took ages to fold 66 also. board was eventually QQ6Jx.

I peak at 70k before it just goes wrong basically, lose some chunks with 88,10s etc etc and basically go card dead from there on. I tried to make to odd thing happen but i had been moved from the good table soon after the KK so it took me a while to settle and get info on the new table by which point the blinds had caught up a bit as well.

In the end i was in push mode and already got away with a couple to sustain a pushable stack but this hand kills me in the end:

1500,3000 500ante so approx 9000 a round folds round to the sb who pushes allin same stack as me (just under 30k). I made the cringe call with A9 confident im ahead but hating fact he prob live cards. He shows K2off and before the dealer spreads the flop i see the first card is an ace and immediately realise im huge favourite. Milliseconds later the other 2 cards are spread and its Ks (Mick Hodges) and Kc (Werewolf), talk about rollercoaster poker emotions all within the space of a second or 2. I bust 48th/350 pays to 27 , pot to go just under average but with a playable stack to an extent so big time gutted and a bit fuming for 15 mins or so but hey thats poker. 8.5 hours play inc breaks so tiring but good warm up for main event for sure and im playing some good strong confident poker generally so cant complain.

In contrast to yesterday all ive eaten today is a banana, a snickers bar and a bowl of frosties. Expect a feast tommorrow, doubt i will be up to facing another tourney but i'll see how i feel.