I arrived at my first WSOP main event and fully expected a weak field. My expectations were more than met and I started piling up chips right away.

With blinds of 50/100 I took an incredible 6000 chips off an opponnent with AJ on a J high  board when he called pot on all streets and mucked. Later on I reraised an opponenent preflop then bet all the way with AA on a 84245 board and he called all in with AT ... So I quickly worked my stack to 50k well above the average.

My delightful table broke and they gave me a barely tougher one with the main danger being Joe Sebok fortunatly sitting with a medium to smallish stack on the opposite side of the table. With 55k at the time a woman raised rom the Cutoff and I raised with AKo on the button to 1/3rd of her stack. She thought for a while and pushed her 15k. I called and she showed QQ. The board was a very dramatic KT6-Q-J and I busted my second opponent for the day.

With 70k and blinds of 300-600 I was in great shape but then proceeded to be card dead for a while. I lost a couple of small pots, did a lot of folding. My image I thought was pretty tight, and I was back to 52k when the cutoff raised to 2500 on my big blind and seemed pretty weak. I looked up at J9 and since he only had 12k and there was already 4k in the pot, I put him all in at once. He went into the tank and finally made the call with ATo. An ace on the flop sealed the deal and I was back to 38k, just the average.

Fortunatly the last two hours the poker gods liked me a lot, and I got my first rush of the month. An early player raised and Joe Sebok reraised to 7k. I picked up KK in late position and decided the best way to get a call was to move in. Bold move and it worked as Joe had AKs. This crippled him and brought me to 80k.

With 100 big blinds and my opponents all shortish and for the most part trying to make it to day two, I switched gear. The CutOff raised to 2500 preflop and had just 20k more. I thought his range was very wide preflop and he would certainly bet again if he missed, so I called with 24s, decided to push almost any flop if he bet. The blinds passed and the flop was a great K84 rainbow. He bet 5k, I moved in and he instamucked.

Later on I raised Jh6h into 4 players. The guy on my left, decent tight player, flat called. The blinds passed. Flop came 3s4c5c, I checked and so did he. Turn came a 5h, I bet 4k and he called. River was a delightful 2 and I bet the full pot sensing he might have an Ace and would have to payoff. He immediatly called with AJo and stared in amazement at my great starting hand as he mucked his lower straight :)

The day is over for me now and I sit with 118,000. The average is 50k but of course the road is very long. I have a couple days to relaxm swim in the pool, work on my suntan, and come back to the battle field refreshed.

Arnaud is playing day 1 today, he just texted me and after 4 hours he's already worked is way up to 55,000... Way to go man!