Jason Mercier Poker Blog
Checking in from NAPT Venetian
Created By: Jason Mercier Posted in: Jason Mercier Poker Blog, Tournament TrailI'm sitting here in the media room at the Venetian, after doing a few interviews over the last couple hours.
I feel like I have been really lazy lately when it comes to every aspect of my life except for poker.
Since arriving in Vegas, I have been sleeping about 10-12 hours a night, which has been great by the way. While I was in LA I was getting some of the worst sleep ever, only sleeping 4 hours or so a night.
I played the NAPT main event on Saturday and made it to Day 2 with 41k in chips which was a little bit below average stack.
I had a really tough table on Day 1, with benba, mrsmokey, nick binger, and a few other solid players at my table. I was really looking forward to Day 2 as I figured that I couldn't have a tougher table then I did on Day 1.
Unfortunately I was wrong, my Day 2 table consisted of, BkIce, Bazeman, and like 4 young online kids that all play well. I chipped up a bit over the first couple levels only to lose a big flip AK vs JJ for my stack near the end of the 2nd level.
I went upstairs and jumped in the Sunday 500 and busted after about 3 hours. I then passed out for a nice long nap and had a really scary dream which I don't want to talk about.
After getting up from the nap, I did a few things on the computer, booking flights etc, and then went and got some food with my roommate before going back to sleep.
Today, I woke up after sleeping for 12 hours, and then made my way down to the player lounge for the interviews that I had to do.
Luckily I was able to squeeze in just enough time to write this post, before the High Roller drawing party which is in 45 minutes. At the party, I will find out my table and start time for the NAPT High Roller event tomorrow.
This event is a $25k buyin and is a shootout structure with a cap of 48 players. You have to win your 8 handed table to make the money and play the final table of 6 players on the 25th.
I'm hoping to have a good draw and look forward to playing this event tomorrow. There are 2 flights one at 11 am and one at 5 pm, I'm not sure which one I want, I think the 11 am will be better for me since I have been sleeping so much recently.
Next blogpost will hopefully be after I make the final table of this event.
Peace
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Comments
5J-Merc
2010-02-24Have a shave kid
hector olivella
2010-02-23you could add me on facebook please ( Hector Olivella)
hector olivella
2010-02-23hi jason i'm Héctor Olivella i'm from Barcelona you is the best player come on JASONNN
i'm 16 years old
willie
2010-02-23f.y.i, when i mentioned the eating of salads, i was referring to what i have at the poker tables when i play. most of the other stuff poker clubs offer is really unhealthy and not prepared very well.
Willie
2010-02-23dude, one of the reasons why you're sleeping so much is 'cause you're not getting enough exercise. at LEAST 1/2 hour of cardio and 45 mins of free weights minimum of 3X a week will have you feeling so much better. diet is important too. if you're not eating enough ruffage then consider low sodium v8 juice in the morning. full glass. add a pinch of pepper and it'll taste just like a bloody mary w/o the alcohol.
fish, chicken and multi vitamins are also hopefully part of your diet, in addition to a decrease of saturated fats. i generally only drink water and eat salads w/lemons on the side (squeeze the juice into the salad for dressing), then take my aminos and protein shakes (muscle milk powder and lowfat milk).
hope that helps you to feel better! you also won't get sick so much if you stick with drinking as much water as possible. flushes out your system.