End of day 1b at atlantis from Evan Roberts. 6 January 2008, 19:19.

Played the first day of the ept pokerstars carribean adventure today. Also got to meet ansky (yesterday) and jurollo (today) for the first time in real life which was nice.

Some interesting hands:

100-200 level (2nd level). UTG opens to 675 (he opens a LOT of pots, maybe 50% of the time when no one raises in front of him. He seems decent. He also knows who I am from online), I reraise UTG+2 to 1750 with KK, UTG+3 who seems to be fairly inexperienced reraises to 7k, everyone folds to me, I think and shove. He doesnt snap-call, I breathe a sigh of relief. He calls with QQ after about 90 seconds. My hand holds up, and I double through to 38k.

Two levels later (200-400 with a 50 ante) I have 36k. Same utg from first hand opens utg for 1100, I reraise to 2700 with 67s. He calls. Flop comes 89T. He checks, I bet 4500, he asks how much I have and then shoves for 30k. I call. He has T9 and the turn and river brick and I have 75kish really early in the tournament.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful with some blind stealing and some small pots. I ended the day with slightly more than 80k. Play starts tomorrow at noon EST with ~500 of 1100 players remaining.

Jurollo has 72kish and ansky has 60kish (I think), so hopefully we can all make it deep into the tourney. Ill write another post after tomorrow.