So much for Fridays

Slept through it. Literally slept entirely through Friday I went to bed around 5am and woke up around 5am today. I usually get pretty upset when I miss days due to sleep but really I just needed this one to catch up and have energy for the tournament. At breakfast around 7:30 am I met three Italian poker players who had yet to sleep and had a lot of questions for me. We managed to break through the language barrier for the most part and it was pretty interesting hearing their stories. The guy who translated, Nica, mentioned his family-owned factory and how he is studying economics while pursuing a career in poker and had tons of questions for me about balancing school and poker. LOL. Talk about a dead end. I laughed and when they looked confused I changed the subject. I ended up getting Nica's number he said to call him if me and my friends were ever looking for something to do. This encounter really changed my opinion on Italian poker players, having previously dealt with a lot of jerks who just didn't have time for some American kid who couldn't speak the language. Most likely this attitude stemmed from a reversed situation where an American brushed off the Italian for not being able to speak English (many people here don't speak more than a few words of English).

After breakfast I did some wandering and happened upon this giant market that apparently only opens Tuesday and Saturday. This place was awesome. There's a big church and then just hundreds of vendors selling clothes, meat, fish, bread (lots of bread), vegetables, etc. I grabbed myself a mini loaf of bread because it's that freaking good and just checked the place out for about an hour. Obviously I got lost trying to find my way back but I'm getting a lot better at recovering, this time just finding the ocean and walking towards it. Will post pics when I figure that whole thing out.

So now it's about 11am and Day 2 of the main event starts in about an hour. Feeling well rested, focused, etc, so obviously I'll be out within about 20 minutes! My friend Kevin is also still in with about 160k chips and I have 5% of him so hopefully we both go deep and get some moneys. Will be tweeting, later.