N'awlins Day One

Just finished up day one of the $5,000 buy-in "Winter Bayou Poker Classic" in New Orleans. Only 102 players came together for this one. Thirty-three of us made it to tomorrow and I'm sitting really healthy with 92,000 (average is about 60,000). This was all thanks to getting Kings all-in preflop against David Fox's Aces and hitting a King on the turn for an 80 big blind pot. I've been on David's side of that and I know what a sick feeling it is. I felt especially bad that it happened against him since he's a really, really nice guy.



Aside from the Kings vs. Aces cooler-turned-suckout, the day went really well. I was at an incredibly soft table all day. You could look around the room and see a lot of young "regulars" with hoodies on. Typically, those guys are pretty good players. My table was filled with the opposite: 40+ amateurs who like to say stuff like, "boy... can you believe I got dealt big slick twice in a row?!?"

They're paying 18 places, so I've got a pretty decent chance to make it 3-for-3 cashing in New Orleans $5k events tomorrow. Kaelaine from PokerPages is here doing live coverage. If anyone wants to follow the day two action, you can do so here.