I wanna run like Andy Black

Day1 of the Aussie Millions has come and gone. My starting table was pretty decent with two Full Tilt Pros (Roland De Wolfe and JJ Liu), but also a few local players who qualified in live satellites and were very easy targets. We began with 20k stacks and I quickly built up to 30k after a series of steals and continuation bets. People began to catch on and I was soon being played back at consistently, losing about 10k in the process, maintaining a loose but not crazy image.

Eventually I had around 26k when I doubled with QhQd against the AsKs of Roland De Wolfe when we got it all in preflop. The board came down Ah 7h 9d Th 5h and I found myself with over 50k in chips. That table then was broken up and I was moved to a new table, sitting to the immediate right of Andy Black, last year's 3rd place finisher.

In the first orbit I was there, he flopped two sets and busted two people, catapulting his stack to 120k and becoming chipleader by a wide margin. I had 45k when the following hand went down:

Blinds 300/600/75, Andy Black makes it 1800 in the CO, I bump it up to 5400 from the button with KcKd. He snapcalls and we see a flop of Qc 9c 4d. Immediately he announces all-in (40k in an 11k pot). I think for a few moments and quickly realize that he will nearly never be beating me in this spot so I make the call. He tables AcTc, so I am 56% to 44% favorite. Obviously the Jc arrives on the turn and I am drawing dead.

It would have been nice to win that pot, I would have had 91k and been chipleader of the tournament, but you can't win 'em all I guess. I survived until the end of Day 1 with 30 minutes left to play for the day, so I guess it's a slight improvement from my previous live tournament results :)

Tomorrow will be spent at the pool or at the beach, relaxation is the name of the game.