Day 1

I will save you to long build up and give my explanation after: Just before the end of the 4th level short stacked my JJ ran into AA. I only had 11-12 big blinds left and needed to make a stand if I was to survive the last round of the day. The faults and trouble came in previous hands, too many for me to be even remotely happy with my performance. My AK s ran into 8 10 flush and again to 22 with a AJ2 flop K turn. I broke my own plan of attack, survive the first day and don't get married to big hands early. Show downs at the table were solid hands mostly so also had a hard time seeing these coming. I did double up with 88 at one point and though that was the repeated of the LA event (there I doubled up with 44 and went on a straight run to the final table). It was not to be this time and I did learn some valuable lessons about playing such a deep stack tournament, next time for sure will be better. In truth I am not sure when that would be. I will say this, if you took 5% of me for this event, the next one I play in, you will get 1% of any profit I make. I was a bit off today and that was because I had only slept about 3 hours. Apparently my 11pm meal did not sit well. Long story short, I was busy most of the night and morning. You deserve a shot at a healthy horse running the race.
Back to poker.
My table had 2 pros (Shane Schleger and Bill Gaze) of either side along with a 6 other solid people. At the end of the first 90min I had 38,000 building slowly and keeping pots small. Just before the break, I made a solid call with 99 on a J high flop. Something about his betting screamed AK so I called his bets each time he fired. By the end of the 2nd round, I had falling to 4.5K in chips after loosing the AK to 222 hand just before the break. By the end of round 3 I had doubled up with 88 to just 12K. Round 4 was drawing to a close when I looked down with JJ, moving the rest of my then 6K into the pot. Running into AA happens and its not the worst way to go down but out I still went.
By the end, the pros at my table were loving Poker4Life (Shane busted before me) and will be great resources moving forward with the charity. This is one very bright spot of this experience, Poker4Life solidified old relationships (especially with the WPT that let us sit at the registration table) and established many new ones. Thanks mostly to Jeremy but also a Team from Ar Loyalty we made contact with several other notable pros (Barry, Gavin, The mouth, Erik S, Kathy, and more. Personally, it was a terrible showing, for Poker4Life it was a home run. Maybe by tomorrow that will make me feel better:)
1st place was 726,000 and 26 ( or last) will take 25,000, so no 2mm first place as we were hoping. Hopefully, next time.
Poker4Life will stick around for the final time, hopfully getting at least one of the 6 to donate any % to the charity of their choice, through us.
Again, thank you for helping me and us have this experience. I am really sorry to have to report such an early exit.