Into a dream of bigger dreams

EDIT: BIG GAME tonight. Hope you can make it, because I honestly think it's the toughest game our gang plays. I'll be there, and if you're looking for it you can search for me - I'm already enrolled. Sorry I haven't been pimping it enough this week - between feeling ridiculously sorry for myself earlier in the week, then gloating like a mothafuckah, I let this slip. Sunday - 9:30pm Password: Donkey. Think you've got what it takes to bring down Captain Lucksac? Come find out. Besides - The Good Doctor is playing - how much more High Profile can this thing get?
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Well it turns out I'm kind of updating as the day goes along...

Just want to start with a thanks everyone for taking the time to stop by the last post. And thanks in particular to mah boyz Hoy and Fuel for recapping my run - that was seriously cool of both of you. It's clear I know how to keep good company. And just in case anyone is under any illusion I don't know how lucky I got, let me assure you - I know.

But enough looking back for me. Under the heading of Playing Your Rushes, I have figured out my next goal for the MWGB: I want to cash the FTOPS ME.

[Insert your quietly incredulous chuckles here.]

Moreover, I want to get in cheap. Yeah, yeah...what can I say...now I'm a bankroll guy. So sue me.

First try I donked a 75er single table SNG, that only cost me about 30 bucks to play since I double tokened it. I busted 4th on a rivering, but you won't find me complaining about beats here for at least a month.

At Least.

Actually it was poor game selection on my part. I do better when multiple seats are available - I'm a finish 4th kinda guy I guess, and that's fine by me. So then I found out there is a 30 seat guarantee $109 MTT tomorrow afternoon before the ME. Then I found a satellite to that $109 that would only dent my new found mountain by 15 bucks.

I am running goot. No question. I am winning races regularly. I am sucking out when someone looks me up with a monster. And best of all, that sense that things are going to go my way has really made me bolder when I have a stack. Lastly, and I still can't quite believe this part, but people at my tables in this tournament and the other tokens I played yesterday actually recognized me from FTOPS. Those who checked pokerdb on me were commenting on it and giving me a wide berth and plenty of respect. High-fucking-larious.

If this heatah can just last through tomorrow, get me an ME seat on the ultracheap (less than 50 bucks total spent) and see me to a 150th place finish - that would be very fucking cool.

It most probably won't work out that way, but that's how I see it in my head tonight.

Laytah.

2:45 EDIT: Well that was quick. Microvariance - ie. good ole fashion horrible fucking luck - is a bitch. 544 runners and I AM OUT FOURTH!!!! There were a hundred + seats. What went wrong? Open with Presto 3x in MP - two callers. Flop is 533. Check it to LP who bets 700. I put him and his two jacks all-in. Sigh. Rivah not goot. Can't do much better than having him drawing to two outs with two cards to come. Maybe I'll putz around and see if anything else is available. So far only spent about 45 bucks on this. I am not buying direct - not after the universe just told me in no uncertain terms it feels its done me enough solids for the week.

5pm EDIT: FTOPS MAIN EVENT here I come. Decided to give the $109 Turbo satellite a shot. 112 runners, 20 seats. Got up to T6800 and after some discussion with Waffles decided I could very likely fold to the seat assuming I got one steal in. That proved fucking frightful, but just when I thought this was going to explode in my face, the table gave my BB a walk. After that it was a little nerve racking (I was down to T750 with 2k/1k blinds 250 ante or some such evil), but just in time the even shortiers got killed off. Never played it like that, folding 88 and AT on the calculations that the ground beneath me would give but not drop me into the abyss.

Got an hour to eat, then it's on to turn my $145 buy-in into something goot hopefully.

9:15pm Edit: Busted in the FTOPS ME. 647th out of 2449. Wes outlasted me by one spot. lucko is still going strong (contain your shock). I 100% blame steve-o. The guy is bad juju for me. Every time he shows weird and horrible things happen to me. Why steve? Why? I asked you to stay away....why did you kill me?

Er...maybe it was me...Truthfully I can't complain - no horrid beats or anything. I thought I played a solid game, but got truly cold decked for the first time in ages (why is it I don't hear you feeling sorry for me?). Tried a few moves, got looked up every time. I won one race to gasp for air, then lost another in the reversed situation. That seemed fair.

No worries. My first 535 and I think I acquited myself honorably. Back down to the 75s and 109s where I likely am still a little light for the weight class.

11:00 Edit: Lucko and the Gnome had great runs in the ME finishing the 100's and cashing for about a G. Nice Work Gents, wish I could have joined you in that impressive feat. Lucko running with a big stack got royally screwed multiple times in front of all of us, including two dominated beats and once running 88 into a BB special KK. He put a clinic on in how to take adversity like a man. To say I was rootin' hard for you is a major understatement. Next time, no doubt. BTW WTF is +1?

Me sleepy. Me bust 11th in the Big Game. Only consolation was smacking smokkee around somefink fierce. I think I am burned out a little and have decided to take a few days off online play. The good news is that Smokke and The Elf are coming up my way and he and I will no doubt tear up an MTT with Hacker - cmon Hack Wednesday = Pokah with the boyz. Put your foot down time, brotha!

Laytah (this time for real).