Where did I leave off... oh yea. 21,500 to end day 1 of WPT Canada. I came into day 2 fairly calm.. knowing that I play a short stack well and telling myself to be patient and get my money in good so I could make a comeback.

I grinded for a while and was able to double up in a few favorable spots. Things were going very smoothly, and day 2 saw me increase my stack at a steady rate. I noticed that this field in particular was filled with many online and \"underage\" players as Canada allows 19 year olds into their casinos. What this meant was table after table of hyper-aggressive, pre-flop reraising, caution to the wind type of players. I witnessed some of these guys crash and burn due to their willingness to gamble, and others succeed because of precise timing and their ability to pick up chips without necessarily having a hand. Poker TV

One player that stood out to me throughout the whole tournament was this 19-year old black kid named Kofi. This kid was fearless! His game was ultra-aggressive he seemed to scoop large pot after large pot. Most of the time, his raises and reraises would get action from one or more players, and his continued aggression after the flop would take down these hefty pots a high percentage of the time. The times where he had to flip up his hand, he usually had the best of it. Usually.

Anyway, I played at various tough tables throughout the day, with an even mixture of internet players and top tournament pros, and was able to play at the top of my game all day to leave me with 213,000! Adding a zero to my chip stack in one day was huge... I now felt like I had a real shot at this WPT title with about 75 players remaining going into day 3.

Then came day 3. I was feeling confident and determined to actually finish this one well unlike a couple showings I\'ve had in the past. (shooting star WPT and USPC most recently. Alas. After a few minutes I was moved to a very tough table that included Jordan Morgan, Barry Greenstein, Allen Cunningham, and the mini-ivey Kofi.

About 45 minutes in came the first blow... A player raised to 9,000 from middle position, and Greenstein who had about 120,000 total decided to make a large reraise from the small blind to 45,000. The size of his raise was fishy to me; it looked like he was trying to commit himself to the hand with a strong holding but nothing amazing; a hand like 99, TT, AQ, AK. I looked down at JJ from the big blind and didn\'t really see any other play besides moving all in. Barry reluctantly called with QQ and that was half my chips. Still, 120,000 was plenty to work with.

20 minutes later.. I pick up QQ and raise to 9,000. I look up and realize Kofi is in the big blind, and I sense a reraise coming. Of course, he reraises to 30,000, as I\'ve seen him do over and over and over throughout the tournament. Obviously, I pushed all in for 120,000, and he called so quickly I feared KK and AA for a moment. He actually had AQ offsuit, and while I was surprised by the call he did have a lot of chips and probably felt I was making some sort of move.

I hadn\'t been to Canada in years, and this trip was enjoyable. I enjoyed the casino and the surrounding establishments, (including one of the best strip clubs ever). I enjoyed the company of my friends and enjoyed getting closer with certain people. Of course, I didn\'t enjoy the ace on the river.

I\'m at the top of my game and my consistency is improving... now I just need to work on my luck. I want that WPT title so muthafuckin baaaaaaaad.