255800 to end day 2

On to day 3. I have 255800. The average is 126000. After dinner there was basically one huge, unusual pot where I virtually doubled up. An unknown opened in the hijack with a couple minutes until break number 6 to 6500 at 1/2000 (200). I made a loose call on the button with QhJd. Calling, raising and folding are all perfectly fine here, I think. I had actually slipped below avg at 107000 with the average at 112000 when this hand came up. Danny Wong also defended in the BB. The flop came Qc6c4x. Danny checked and the HJ quickly bet 12000 leaving himself around 65000. This is such a difficult tournament spot for me. I elected to just call. To my surprise, Danny started counting out chips and called, too. The turn was a nice Qs. Danny checked. The HJ checked, and after some thought I bet 40500 into 57000 chip pot. Danny instafolded and the unknown thought for one minute before announcing AI for about 25000 more. I quickly called and he showed me 99. I sweated the four-across ten on the river thinking it was a nine when it came off the deck. I actually don't mind his play because it is very hard to put me on a dry Q. This is one of those weird tournament hands that you just play passively and end up getting the chips. It turns out the guy who was chipleader at dinner is a guy named Brian "RuthDGloucester" Strahl. I have played dozens and dozens of hours against him at high limit o8. I avoided him almost completely because he played very well. He has a extremely, extremely interesting background which is worth googling.

We had some drinks at B-Bar, and now I'm gonna watch Prison Break before bed because it is the nut show.

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