Vegas Day 5 - $5k WSOP NLHE

Quick update - will blog all the hands tomorrow. I made it through to day 2 of the event with just under 40k in chips (starting stack 10k). The average is about 60k, so I’m behind the pack, but still have a playable stack as blinds are 800-1600 tomorrow. 750 players began the event and we have 120 players left, with 70 getting paid. Hugely likely to be a bubble type scenario, but hopefully I can pick up some hands early tomorrow.

The tables have been a nightmare - very very aggressive, and about 30% of flops have raises and re-raises pre-flop (often with junk). After playing a lot of hands early on, I had to revert to rock like tendancies, as I had a lot of young internet pros on my tables, who love to be aggressive pre and post flop, and I didn’t really fancy getting cute with QJ and the like.

One very notable scalp - I busted Chris “Jesus” Ferguson early on in a 20k pot. I flat called an early limper with KK, and that flummoxed Chris enough into getting it all in pre-flop with AK. Cue the reporters coming over to get my details, so I imagine that will be in the updates somewhere.

I also busted Phil Galfond, one of the “Ship it Hola Ballas”, and Full Tilt pro.

Will put some hands down tomorrow morning if I wake up in time.