ACT AS IF

That motto is a tribute to the mentality I had to have on Sunday and that I need to carry into the rest of the poker. It's from Boiler Room and was given to me as motivation from my friend who thinks my career is his puppet. That's actually a joke.....kind of.


I'm the winner of the Ultimate Bet $200K guaranteed Sunday tournament. A little under 1,000 players played today and I came out on top for my 2nd largest cash ever of $45,000. I think I'm just so tired right now that it hasn't really set in, but I'm thrilled. Sundays are the most frustrating days at times, but playing all the tournaments gives you a shot at some great money. There were so many interesting dynamics at this final table. GBecks, a great online player, got second place and we battled hard heads up for a long time. He just really refused to make a mistake and played so patient. I started with a pretty good size chip lead on him, not sure of the exact numbers. He doubled up when he called with AQ against my K2 and it held. We eventually raced for it all when I had 88 and he shoved over the top of my raise with AK. I won some key races and of course ran well to win a tournament, but I think I made the most of my opportunities at times especially with like 5-3 players left. This blog has to be loopy at this point as that's how I feel after playing from 9:45 today to almost 10pm without a break in there at all. There was always a tournament going of some sort.

I came out in this blog a few weeks ago and said that these next 3 months are going to be absolutely crucial. So far, I've followed that up with an Absolute Poker major tournament win, WPT 2500 final table for 6th and UB Sunday major win.