Bagged 46k for day 2 of the main (avg should be around 60k). Basically played 3 big pots (calling 45BB shove w/JJ on 8-hi board, flopping quads & calling 3-barrel, & winning flip AK>TT). Otherwise threaded water.

Joe has just taken 2 biggish pots back to back from one of the leaders. 1st was a 4-bet squeeze, chip leader shows Ace as he folds, Joe shows 7. Next pot is check-check flop and turn, Joe rivers a set of 3's & gets paid on a pretty big river bet. Other guy looks pretty pissed, not sure if he's tilted. I'm not following the blog so I don't know who the other players are.

Same former leader loses another pot to now big chip leader, seems pretty tilted, then gets all-in with 22 vs Joe's AA which holds. Joe is firmly 2nd of 4 (but chip leader pretty far ahead, maybe 2:1).

Wow still trying to grasp what has happened over the past 24 hours. Without a doubt, the greatest experience of my poker career. Better than anything was having all my poker friends railing me and Joe W most of the final table. My parents came down and caught all the action from about 5 handed on which was really special. Ive never actually told my parents what Ive been doing for a living so that takes a lot of pressure off. It was also really cool having fellow TPEer Laurence, aka huge, on the rail doing play by play for me on here. 

I look back at how far ive come in poker over the past 9 months and im truly overwhelmed. Ive gone from the typical fish who thought he knew something about poker to feeling extremely comfortable and confident at the final table of a WSOP circuit event. 

When Andrew and Carlos came down I told them about my fairy tale story of moving to AC in September to grind 2/5 only to crush it the first month and then hit the bbj in October. I live with 3 other incredible players, one of which is obviously JoeW. So not learning a ton about poker would have been pretty difficult. 

On top of all that, this year has been full of close calls in live tourneys. I have like 6 or 7 finishes within the top 18 but no FTs until this one.

I came into the final table 8th in chips but still within reach of the leaders and with 41 bbs there was still plenty of play left. My day started very slow. I was fairly card dead and really couldnt get anything going. I opened twice in the first 2 levels, both utg. One got through and the other was 3 bet by utg+1. It was pretty frustrating but I knew I just needed to be patient and eventually I would find spots. Things went really well after I won a race with AQ against 99 and I ended up heads up with my roommate for the title. Fortunately for me, I had about a 7-1 chip lead going into heads up play. After about 5 hands, Joe shoved over my button open into my AK and I held up to take it down. As P-aire said, Joe was hands down the best player at that final table so it was nice to have such a big lead. 

My poker journey began here at TPE and you guys are largely resposible for the things I have accomplished this year. Thank you so much.