In the Money + On to day 2 of Event #49

Tilt. Typed out a whole blog and damn computer froze, so this will be short. I'm on to day two of the 1500 NLHE event. 3151 players started and we're down to 220ish. I have 48400 and average is 57000ish. Blinds resume at 1/2000 tomorrow, so it's a crapshoot. My table is very good with 9 unknowns. One guy is a clown with 115000 in chips and routinely opened for 5 to 6x BB, so hopefully he will double me up. I got moved to the Amazon Room with 53000 and got as high as 65000 at my peak. I then never ventured below 45000, which is strange considering how big the game was playing with the blinds. On the bubble I raised every pot and unfortunately only broke even over that period. There were two guys with fewer chips who were determined not to be pushed around. One funny pot on the bubble. UTG at 8/1600 I pretended to look at my cards but raised to 4100 in the dark. One guy with only 12000 fewer chips than me called in MP. The flop came KJ9, and I considered betting whilst not knowing my cards, but I decided to look because this is a dangerous flop. I looked and amazingly I had J9 for a flopped two pair. I bet out 7400, but unfortunately the guy folded after long thought. Hopefully I can win 10 flips tomorrow and make the final table. Still a long way to go, but I'm probably only 70:1 against winning because the field is incredibly weak. Jon is still in with 65000 and Adam Geyer with 35000. I'm 3 for 18 in cashes this WSOP, so I'm very happy about that. If you told me I'd be 3 for 18 cashing before this year's WSOP I'd've said lock it up.

Also, congrats to my friend Bill Edler for winning a bracelet in the 5000 6max event. Bill is a testament to how the game of poker should be played. A lot of the home game allstars who come in to the WSOP and know nothing about etiquette could learn a lot from a guy like Bill.

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