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I’m down at the luxurious Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City (I meant that sarcastically, but they’ve actually made a lot of improvements since the last time I was here and it’s pretty nice) playing the U.S. Poker Championship’s $2500 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha tournament. The final table of seven players will be televised on SpikeTV.

We got a whopping 32 runners, and they’re paying five spots. This means that two people will reach a televised final table and lose money. Hah!

As some of you know, I’ve been working hard on my PLO game and I thought this USPC event would be a great spot to get some more experience, and of course possibly win some money and get some TV time. We started with 15,000 in chips. I ran that up rather smoothly to 55k (someone got 100 blinds in against me with naked A2 on a 345 flop; for you non-PLO players out there, that’s really really bad), but then lost a couple of tough pots to go back down to 26k. Luckily I got on the right side of set-over-set against Steve Zolotow, and I ended Day One with 52,400. Thirteen players are left and we’re playing down to seven tomorrow (Tuesday). Average stack is 36,923.

I’m off to sleep now, but you can follow live updates on my progress via my twitter account.