Well, for some reason or another, I find myself back here at Turning Stone for the HPT. Not really sure why, which usually means it's a bunch of small reasons. I guess I don't have anything better to do, and haven't played live poker in a month. I'm also going to be driving back with my friend Adam Shuman, who's tagging along back to Ohio again.

I busted out of the $550 in 33rd yesterday, when 20 paid. At 500/1k/100 I was in the BB holding A4o and had 16.5k or so. The CO opened for 3,000 and I shoved. When it got back to him, he hemmed and hawwed, and eventually made the call. He started the hand with a couple hundred more chips than me, which is also one of the reason's why I jammed A4o there. Regardless, he called off (basically) his entire stack and showed J9s.

I lost the 57/43 or w/e it is and hung out with Randal the rest of the night. During the early-middle stages I built up a stack to around 30k, but could never get much going once we were deep. Even though I built up a stack, I'd say I brought my B-/C+ game, and probably used about 5% of my brain. This isn't a brag or a beat, just a comment on low buy-in live tournaments. Maybe it says something about myself too, idk - but I do plan on being more focused for the $1,500.

During the tournament a lot of people mentioned how they'd seen me on TV for last year's HPT. Hence the title of this blog, I was asked that at least a dozen times by the 35+ crowd. Inevitably, people played differently against me in some spots, which was fine. I hope the person who busted me with J9s told all of his friends =). I'm just joking when I say that, and don't mean any harm or foul on anyone. I have no problem busting out like that.

I slept through today's $750 tournament. Tonight I'm heading to visit my nearby relatives, and tomorrow, I've decided I'm going to give it my all and try to improve on last years finish.


-Adam J

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