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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

MMBanker14

Interested to hear your thoughts post trip. My brother has played three or four times. Cashed once. It’s a slog as I’m sure you know. 

Yeah I have heard it is a slog. My plan is to play Day 1 July 4th, Day 2 July 6th, and Day 3 July 8th if I can make it that far. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Deo et Patriae

Imagine it was the very first hand of the first level of the Main Event. UTG+2 opens with a raise, folds to high jack who 3-bets. The cutoff then proceeds to 4-bet. Next up is the button who pauses for a moment and then 5-bet shoves all-in. You are in the BB and look down at pocket Aces... what do you do?

I'm not folding pocket Aces.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

After 12hrs of play yesterday including breaks, I bagged Day 1 of the $10K Main and play Day 2 tomorrow with 88,400 chips. Average stack is around 72K. Definitely one of the craziest and most exhausting days of my life yesterday. LFGGGGG 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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