Won my seat yesterday in a cliff hanger of an event. When we got down to 22 or so discussions were started about a chop. As usual, a few didn’t want to as there were some short stacks. Two hours laters all the short stacks had doubled up and we were all pretty even in chips. Better restart those chop discussions Queen said and lo and behold the earlier holdouts were much more ameanable at ths stage. Saved a few hours that way too.

Survived Day 1 of the L A Poker Classic, 745 started and 477 finished. Just had one of those days you have to endure .. second best, lost 5k or so with JJ on a low board to run into QQ. Super aggressive table and little to work with. Finally call a pre flop raise with A K of spades, loose player reraises, I move all in, he insta calls with Jacks and I catch a king to double up to 24k. Almost the next hand he moves all in pre flop and I get KK for the first time in the entire tournament. Call, of course, and he has A Q offsuit and catches an ace to cost me $7,650. Had the hands happened in a different order, the kings first I would have been out so am grateful for that. Ended the day with $15k in chips, not great but a testament to surviving. Return tomorrow at noon.