The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs... (the creamy middles).

So the past two days have been fairly good I guess.

I resumed day two at the venetian 2k with a good stack, had a real good table first up with the only players who could play being Daniel Kochan from Sydney and this German looking kid who seemed good... I threebet a bunch of people and got a few more chips then flatted 44 against said German. Flop K97, he checks fairly quickly, I figure him for the kind of guy (usually cash players fit this) who value their tourney life too much (the whole "im way better than you people so as long as i stick around i'll win mentality), so i decided that he folds half his range in two streets, and the other half in three basically... I bet flop, he flats. Turn T. he check calls another bet. At this point i have him squarely on QQ or JJ; im not really sure what else can play the hand this way... He has 45k left and the pot is 56 or so, so I put him all in when he checks. 3 minutes of making me sweat later he folds.

I pick up a few more pots pretty much uncontested before flipping with a fairly short stack who threebet me from the bb, my A8o was too good for his 77 on the KQ968 board and off he went to the rail as I passed 300k. I hung aroudn the 70bb mark for the majority of the day, then when we hit 27 players left our tbl broke and I was moved to a fairly tough table. Luckily by this time I had around 475k.

I played one hand pretty stupidly against a scandi kid that I'm pretty disappointed with... As I was firing the third barrel i was thinking to myself "there's no chance this kid folds here", but still bet, he called quickly, and I had to spend the rest of the day frustrated at my first real slip up.

Obv then Aditya Aggarwal moves to my table and I lose a flip to him which leaves me with like 12bb, which i am able to navigate until the end of the day, with 18 players remaining.

Day three then commenced and I was UTG with 11.xbb, and found AJo and shipped it in. Rodney Harrison (UK guy who won the heavyweight boxing at the olympics) isolates with 77, and I win the flip. Good start. I then open 99, same guy flats and we see a J88 flop which I bet. He calls and the J repeats on the turn, prmopting two checks. The river then bricks off and I figure to check to allow underpairs that got counterfeited to have a stab, he bets, i call, he mucks.

Sitting with about 400k at this point I take down a few pots uncontested and move on up to 525k or so by the time we get to 12 players left. Shane Giese on my right opens to 38k and I make it 108k with QQ, he flats and we see a 765r flop. He checks and I do the same. We had played a lot of hands together on day two and the scoreboard was about even, but I knew that given stack sizes he would look to get stacks in on such a flop, forcing me to fold a bunch of hands on a bunch of turn/river combos. The turn repeats the 5, good card for me really, and Shane leads out for 152k, which I call. The river is the 9, and he shoves after a bit of thought (he had me covered by about 250k). I snap call and the look on his face confirms my suspicion that he has nothing, and he rolls over KTs for the airball. I am quite pleased with the way things are rolling along now, as I have close to 1.1m

We quickly reach the ten handed FT and I am sitting third in chips. Clayton Maguire is still the dominant chip leader with well over 2.5m - The first elimination was quick, as were the second and third. We played seven handed for quite a while, and I managed to chip up to 1.9m or so during this time facing no real resistance.

The french dude who tanked every decision busts, then when 6 handed Shane shoves his remaining 11bb from the cutoff into my AA and I hold. Shortly after, the little jamaican dude shoves his AT into my AQ and I manage to hold despite the QJ8 flop.

So four handed, I have around 3m, as does clayton, the boxer has around 1m, and the scandi I bluffed unsuccessfully on day 2 has 2m.

We play four handed for aroudn two hours before the tension breaks and the scandi busts to Clayton. I was glad as the scandi was real good. Me and Clayton take turns winning chips off the boxer, and I get the better of the encounters with clayton, with my stack reaching 5.4m at one point.

I then 4bet bluff in what i thought was a good spot, but Clayton 5bet shoved and I cursed the gods. The boxer eventually busts to Clayton and heads up he has precisely twice as many chips as I do. It is at this time that I find out that he is "mesmerisePLS" online, a real sicko, so I offer him a good deal where he got more than his chips were technically worth, but he declined.

H/U did not last long as second hand all the chips go in on a Jd8d3c flop with me holding J9cc and him holding AJo. Turn is the 2c for 12 clean outs, but the river bricks. I report to the cashier for my winnings and go home.

Will post some photos and shit soon I guess, hope all is well back home.