If I can get past day 1, I like my chances out in San Jose for the Bay101 Shooting stars WPT. The structure for the tourney is great, but it's especially great for day 2 thru the final table. Day 1 the levels are only 1 hour long and you have to play 10 levels which makes for a somewhat long day. But the deeper you get into the tournament the longer the levels get, which is a great idea and unique to this tournament. Also unique to this tournament are the fans. The people here are nutts! Of course in a good way. The madness that occurs could only be rivaled by the WSOP main event, and thats just because of how many people are around. Poker news.  Its great to see so many autograph seekers and fans that are so enthusiastic about the game. Altho it is a little creepy when some of them pul out photo albums with 8X10 glossys of all the pros, you kinda wonder where they got them from.

So anyways...I feel really good about my game right now. I'm playing great, getting deep in everything I play online poker pretty much. Yesterday I thought my head was going to explode. I was in like 14 games at once, and I just couldn't bust from anything. At one point the stars 2nd chance and 100 rebuy tournaments started at the same time, and in the 2nd chance it took me 3 minutes and 1 double up to realize it wasn't the rebuy. 1st hand of the tourney I open shoved 77 from UTG and got no calls, then 2 hands later Shaun Deeb opened from the button to 60, and knowing he will gamble a little bit in the rebuy hour I just jammed my QQ from the big blind. He called with 44 also thinking it was the rebuy! But it was the second chance and I doubled up =)

Anyhow.....I had a pretty decent Sunday... bubbled the final table of the huge 100r during the afternoon after losing a huge flip w/ AK but finished the day kind of OK taking 4th in the 50r on stars for about 12k. The final table was a crap shoot bc we weren't deep at all and I pretty much went card dead short hand and found A8 on the button w/ 10 BBs and it honestly looked like AK. Unfortunately I ran into AA in the BB =(

Oh well...time to run...gotta finish getting ready for the airport. Hopefully I'll have good news to report back to y'all from the bay101.

Until Then~

Kevin Saul