i’ve played a few more events since my last blog post, the $200 6max ko, $300 freeze, $500 hu, $1k 2nd chance, and $200 turbo. i didn’t cash any of these, but i’m not doing a silly ftops bet so it doesn’t really matter. i was originally gonna skip the heads up, but jcarver said the field would be soft enough so i ended up playing it. i didn’t get a bye first round, but i was able to get it in with the nut flush vs trips on like the 2nd hand. i then won my 2nd round by opening 94o otb, getting flatted, and getting c/c’d 3 times on K94xx by qq somehow. i got some cash reg 3rd round, and i made a bunch of big hero calls which ended up being right to win. last round before the bubble, i drew isaac fucking baron. i wasn’t thrilled about this obviously, but i just tried to shrug it off and play well. i’m pretty happy with how i did, even though i got 3 outered for the win, missed over+fd vs his two pair for the win, and then couldn’t fade his gutshot+fd vs my bottom two to take the lead. bummer, but i am still glad about how i played that round. the rest of the tournaments were pretty uneventful, just losing flips or getting coolered early on, shrug.

my spot at #2 on opoy was pretty shortlived, but i’m still in the top 10 for right now. i just need to win any of the giant tournaments this sunday to take 1st, should be pretty ez. sure hope i can!!

as most of you probably already know, i won the warmup for 105k on sunday. while winning the actual tournament is fun (and the money is pretty cool too), my favorite thing about it has been the attention from various poker sites and such. i’m currently 3rd on cardplayer’s online player of the year right now, and assuming no one else got any good scores recently, i’ll move up into 2nd with my cash in the ub 1k last night. it’s still far too early for this to be anything really significant, but it’s just really cool for me to see my name up there.

i played a “full” schedule yesterday of stars 100r, fuper, ub 1k, ftops, ftp 100r, stars 300, and ub 200, which all happened to qualify for opoy since it was such a big night. i cashed in ftops and the 1k to basically breakeven. i got 13th in ub after a questionable call of a tiny 3b with aqs oop and stacking off on qjx vs kk, but we were pretty shallow and i think he’s forcing himself to b/c with ak there so i don’t really know about that. in ftops, i managed to work my way up to 150k (30 starting stacks) at 1200/2400, but then i lost qq vs aa for 200k and grinded the shortstack for a while until shoving jts into kk. i even flopped a fd but he had quads by the turn oh well! i’m pretty excited for all the ftops events coming up, since the tournaments themselves are pretty huge and they make everything else bigger as a result. i’m hoping that i can play the 5k event there, but i’m not sure if my schedule will allow it. if not, i’ll just have to wait 6 months until it’s fr again since 6max is the worst ever.

love,

tommy

i have a pretty sick life. i basically never do anything except play tournaments one day a week and run insanely hot at them. in august alone, i finished 6th in the brawl, 4th in mulligan, won the 750k, and got 5th in a stars sunday 100r for around 150k combined. in spite of all this, it’s so easy to just forget that i’ve run so far above expectation and just go on complaining about stupid shit like losing coinflips semi-deep in tournaments or having marginally losing sundays. i mean sure it’s frustrating not having a winning day in 3 months, but with the results i’ve had, i don’t think i could become a losing player at tournaments if i tried.

my sundays tend to finish with me complaining about something in pm to jcarver and he usually just shrugs it off and says whatever or something. this past sunday however, he tried to beat some sense into me and we ended up actually having a pretty insightful discussion about my attitude towards poker among other things. it essentially boiled down to, for someone who was so upset as i was towards not doing well, i was incredibly apathetic towards working to improve myself and my game. he also pointed out that winning the 750k might have even been detrimental to my success, because forcing myself to continually grind and get better would have probably netted me more than that win, instead of launching me into such a disinterested, anti-grind mindset. like, winning a big sunday is like the high point of most online players’ careers and since i’ve already completed that goal so early, there is little motivation to continually improve. i’m not totally sure what i’m going to do to fix this problem, but i bought a cardrunners account and plan on reading and posting a lot more in hsmtt.

i’ll end this post with the following lines from our conversation which sum everything up pretty well:

<Loopycunt> commit to it and win all the money
<Loopycunt> or dont and dont
<Loopycunt> love jason

-t