April 21st, 2008
Man we’re playing good these days. It’s the end of day two and I have the second most chips. 393k. It’s been a fun journey getting here.
With what happened this weekend I was way more anti-social than I usually am. I usually answer too honestly when people ask me “How are you?” I didn’t really want to talk about it - mostly becuase I have zero clue what these emotions are going to look like. I spent every break in the car. This definitely helped my focus, although I think that I came off as a bit nittier.
The structure in this tourney is like the best ever. There’s a big jump next level, going from 1k-2k/300 to 1500-3k/400, but other than that they’re all there starting at 50-100 with 50k behind. Super deep. So, I develop a super lag image, part cards, part the general nittiness of tourney players this deep. Unknown raises to 700 at 100-200 with about 35k behind. I flat A
T , and we see a flop heads up. I flop a flush draw, he bets, I raise, he calls, turn the nuts, he check calls, river still the nuts, he check-calls all-in. That was nice.
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March 30th, 2008
So blessed… Man, it’s hard to put into words what I’m feeling. The last blog was a pretty good stream of consciousness in my opinion… this journey has been so incredible and amazing that it’s very difficult to put into words what I’m really feeling.
Grateful. Lucky. Blessed. Stoked. Those are the first ones that come into mind.
So, after that barf blog, here’s what happened.
I went to bed Thursday night expecting to wake up to a message knowing who was sponsoring me at the final table. I needed to get that taken care of before I went to make-up at 2pm. Maria called me at 11:15 and asked me about the deal, said she was on the phone with Vanessa Russo talking deals at the moment. I said see what you can find out and went to get a hold of Matt.
Turns out he got stonewalled and couldn’t make anything happen. Crap.
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March 28th, 2008
This sure has been fun.
This is all going to explode into some sweet blog someday.
But probably not right now. But who knows. I’m sitting here listening to my friend Ryan Ahern play the piano through my Bose sound dock.
See? I’m practicing talking about sponsors.
So, tomorrow I’m gonna get paid a minimum or $10k for wearing a fucking logo.
I gave up on being famous like six months ago. And y’all bitched to me about depressing blogs and what not… but damnit, I was a selfish cocky asshole about twelve months ago.
I’m glad it’s taken this long.
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March 26th, 2008
17/75 remaining “World Poker Challenge WPT Event
Reno, Nevada
March 25-28, 2008
9 4 4 8 A
Flop Turn River
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