Greetings all. My apologies for the post from two days ago that said I would be starting the main event yesterday. I was a day off and I start the main event today (in one hour, so I have to make this a quick one).
I took it easy the rest of Tuesday but played one smaller tournament but didn’t cash. Wednesday I slept late, had a healthy lunch then hung out at the pool for a few hours. In the evening I went and played some high stakes cash game from about 5 hours and made about $1,500. I had a long night sleep last night and am now going to grab coffee, a light bite, and start the Main Event.
The Main Event is the deepest stack and slowest structured event there is (I think). You start with 20,000 in chips and the blinds are only 50/100 to start. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, just ignore this part. The levels are 2 hours each. So there’s lots of time to just sit back and play tight and wait for good cards but many people take the opposite approach and play lots of pots for cheap looking to hit a great hand with two pair or a set or a straight, etc while hoping someone else has AA or KK and just can’t let it go. In this case they may double up. I’m going to figure out my strategy based on the table or tables I end up playing on.
I’ll try to post some quick updates throughout the day. Let’s hope for good cards and I’ll see if I can play them well. I mainly want to slowly build my stack and just make it through today and my day 2 without being too low on chips. The end of day two and into day three is where the real action play will start, I’m thinking. We’ll just have to see.
I’m off!
Good luck my friend.