Starting table:
Seat 1: Huck Seed - A very good live player whom I'd never played against before
16,500
Seat 2: Andrew Boccia - An online player with good results; reminded me of Remmy
71,000
Seat 3: Ryan Fair - Another online tournament pro with good results
71,500
Seat 4: William McClintock - Qualifier whom I knew nothing about
33,000
Seat 5: Alex Brenes - Brother of Huberto Brenes. Alex was solid, had a very similar style to mine
88,400
Seat 6: David Zalona - Online qualifier
68,000
Seat 7: Angel Penalver - Businessman who seemed to play poker as a hobby
21,000
Seat 8: Me
116,300
Seat 9: Patrick Renkers - Online MTT player
16,000

Blinds: 500/1,000/100
I decided to take it easy for the first few rounds and see how the table developed. The day started out rough. First, I lost a flip to Huck after I raised from early position with A,Q and he went all-in with J,J. I called and failed to improve, which dropped me down to roughly 95,000.
A few rounds later it folded to me in the cutoff and I looked down at a pair of eights. I raised to 2,600 and the button very quickly moved all-in for approximately 24,000. I didn't think long when the action folded back to me, as he had 3bet an earlier raise of mine from late position. I called. Unfortunately he had T,T and I lost another decent sized pot to bring my stack down to around 65,000.

Blinds: 600/1,200/100
Shortly after the level change our table broke and I was moved to a new table with a lot of action. The only player I recognized was Steve Paul Ambros across the table from me (I was in seat 1). Again, I played very few hands for the first hour.
The big stack in second position raised my big blind to 2,600 (a common occurence, as it turned out). It folded to me and I flat called with A,K. The flop was As, 7, 4s. I decided to lead out 5,000, expecting him to raise. He didn't disappoint and made it 12,000. I quickly went all-in for about 60,000 total and he quickly mucked.

Blinds: 800/1,600/200
The big stack raised my big blind, yet again. This time to 3,800. An amateur called from middle position and I called from the big blind with Ac,6c. The flop brought a dreamy Jc, 7c, 5c. I checked, the pre-flop raiser threw out 8,000 and the amateur quickly re-raised to 20,000 (leaving himself with 40,000). At this point I had roughly 80,000 in front of me. I thought for a while about smooth calling because re-re-raising screams a monster. However, I thought that even if they both folded I'd still pick up a good pot, plus I didn't want to see the board pair or another club on the turn. I decided to just go all-in. The initial raiser tanked for a couple minutes before folding. The other guy immediately called all-in and tabled QJ, no club! The turn brought a very scary jack, but the river bricked and I was now up to 160k!

Blinds: 1,000/2,000/200
The first hand after break it folds around to the hijack to my right. He makes it 5,500 with around 45,000 behind. I pick up Q,Q right behind him and re-raise to 20,000. Both blinds fold and he quickly ships and I obviously call. He actually had a decent hand this time, but didn't hit his ace or king and I was now up to 200k.
Shortly after the table broke and I was moved to a new table with a ton of chips, which was rather unfortunate.

Second position raised to 5,500 and it folded to me on the button. I looked down at an A,J and decided to call, as did the big blind. The flop was Td, 7d, 4. They both checked to me and I threw out 6,225. The big blind called and the initial raiser let it go. The turn was a deuce. Check, check. River: 4. He bet 12,500. At this point I can beat missed diamonds or straight draw and that's about it. However, after analyzing the hand a bit more I didn't think he would bet middle pair here and I thought trips would try to extract a little more value. Therefore, the only hand thas me beat here is a ten (which he could easily have. But given the size of the pot and his range of hands I decided to call. He tapped the table and showed 8c,9c

I raised from second position to 6,100 with KhQh. Fourth position, a kid who had been playing fairly tight so far, made the call. Everyone else folded. The flop was 8,8,4 rainbow. I thought for a bit about what to do, normally just about everyone continuation bets here, but I decided to get a little tricky and just check. He thought for about 40 seconds or so before betting out 8,500. At this point I put him on a decent pair like nines or tens. I thought about check/raising because check/folding is just flat out inexcusable and check/calling is way too spewy. However, the more I thought about it, the worse I started feeling. I decided to just listen to my gut and go with what I would normally say is the worst option: check/fold.
Once the break hit I went to the bathroom and I saw the kid in there.
"Did you actually have anything that hand?" I asked.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you..."
"Oh, you had a boat or something?"
"I had quads"
"Really? That's crazy! My plan was to check/raise you, but I just got a bad feeling at the last minute. Seriously, who just check/folds on an 8,8,4 rainbow board after raising from second position?!"
"Yeah, I know, that's why I decided not to slow play it because I thought there was no way you were going to just check/fold."
"Wow, I got really lucky there, that could have been a disastrous pot."
Who actually knows if he really had quads or not, but nevertheless it made me feel good :)

Blinds: 1,200/2,400/300
I wanted to open things up a bit this last level, but there were very few opportunities that I liked. I ended up winning a few blinds and antes, but no real pots of significance this level. I ended the day with 215,000. The start of the day didn't go according to plan, but I mentally prepared for all possible scenarios, which helped a lot. I have a good stack heading into tomorrow, wish me luck!