The Day 1 Grind

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Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

One of Western New York's top tournament players, with almost $670,000 in career live tournament earnings, Buffalo, NY's DJ Mackinnon knows his way around a typical tournament's starting day.

He jumped in here in the seventh level, but despite a meteoric rise to almost 70,000 in chips already, he said the action hasn't been too exciting.

"It's boring," he said, referring to the story of the hands he'd played that saw him chip up fast. "It's all boring on Day 1's."

Keeping up with the latest beefs on Poker Twitter seems to have grabbed a bit more of Mackinnon's attention today, as it does on most Day 1's, while he climbs the counts, preparing to do battle when things get really exciting on Day 2 Sunday.