First break: 2:15 p.m.

A mad rush of players leave the room to stampede for the restroom. Forsberg strolls out and greets Michelle, who has been fighting boredom while waiting outside.

He’s feeling good about himself and is up $3,000 to $23,000 just two hours into the tournament.

I watched his hand shake uncontrollably during a key hand early in the first round, which he won with a full house, taking down a nice pot.

Forsberg would explain later that he was pretty nervous during the first round, but was able to settle down later.

I later watch him take down a pot without challenge as everyone folds to his pre-flop raise.

“Nice hand, biker dude,” says a young player across the table.

Dinner break: 7:30 p.m.

Forsberg is down to $20,000 and change, just above the break even point. But he’s still feeling good.

“I’m comfortable with my play, I just have to get some cards now,” he says. “The first round I got a few cards and I got up a bit. The second round I mighta played four or five hands. I just wasn’t seeing anything.”

Michelle advises he play more aggressively to take advantage of the tight image he has crafted for himself. Bret agrees, to a point.

“I don’t mind doing that, and using the persona of a tight player, but you gotta have a little something. You can’t run a bluff with an 8-3 off-suit. And those are the kind of cards I’ve been seeing.”

Bret is also proud of a laydown he made, when he tossed aside ace-queen, sensing that the big stack at the table had a big hand.

“I just knew the guy was going to go big. I don’t know what he had, but I just had a read on him.”

Bret and Michelle also enjoyed some brushes with poker celebrity. Bret ran into poker legend Amarillo Slim, and Michelle took a picture of the two together with her cell phone. Looking for ways to kill time, she has also snared photos of Johnny Chan and Humberto Brenes.

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