GUKPT Main Event Day1

Huge field of 398 runners with around £600k in the prizepool and £172k for 1st place! I was sooo tired when day one began, i only had around 3 hours sleep so i was in for a longgggggg day. Started off ok winning a few small pots and grinding up to 20k in the first two levels, things were pretty agonising after that and i grinded my ass off for most of the day to maintain a 15k stack. At 300/600 i had been super tight so elected to steal from early postion with 85off, the only short stack at the table shoved and i was priced in vs his AQ and didnt get there. So im down to 8k at 300/600 and things aren't looking to good but i pick some good spots to steal and resteal and grind up to around 13k. Micky Wernick shoves 9bb from middle position and i look down at AJss and i get it in and make a flush on the river to get to the heights of 22k ish.

My seat sucked Ben Vinson had been moved to my left and was playing super lag with Kellett and Kabbaj both to his left and a bunch of short stacks to my right i had little option than to just lock up and sit tight for a while. The last hand before the break at 400/800, i make it 2175 with KK, and get 4 callers which was pretty disgusting but i had little room to manouver and would be getting it in on most flops. Flop is Q23 two clubs, the blinds check and i lead out 7k, two folds and John Kabbaj tanks then flats from the sb and the bb folds. Turn is an offsuit 4, Kabbaj checks and i shove my last 14k, Kabbaj tanks again and reluctantly folds, later telling me he had a f/draw, so im up to 35k and have a playable stack.

I start to open up a little and got played back at pretty much every hand i raised, kinda frustrating. Kellett and I had been involved in a few pots and he had 3bet me a bunch and had been playing super fast and loose and showing bluffs etc, so the following hand was a perfect set up, the final level of the day at 500/1000 both sitting at around 30k, i make it 2700 with AQss and he instantly 3bets to 8k, i jam and he has AK sigh. The flop brings no hope, and it looks like this could be it :(..

But i bink a queen on the turn, the rivers a blank and i have him just covered and now upto 60k, and all of a sudden im one of the big stacks. We then play out the final 6 hands and i end the day with 60,350! After the way this week has gone i don't think many would begrudge me a little luck in that spot. Play resumes tommorow at 2pm and i will update later tommorow if i get through or get a sick min cash and probably in a few months if i bust lol.

gl at the tablesssssssss
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