Playing Day 1A means you get an off day before Day 2, unless your Michael Herrera (Miami, FL), who used the time to play in Event 22. And play he did, all day and night until he finally busted in third place at 6:30 am.
"It would have been great if I had gotten first place," he says while taking a cat nap in between the endless string of 7 2 and 9 3 hands. "I got about two hours of sleep and got here an hour late," he days while there was only 4 1/2 hours before the 11 am Day 2 restart.
Herrera says he worked his returning 14k short stack to 30k, but is now back down to 10k, roughly 10 big blinds.
A couple of other Day 1A players are doing the double dip, but none has put in as many hours as Herrera.
Herrera's Grind: Day 2 (left), Hours After 6:30 am Finish
