i wanted to put some serious hours in today playing online, playing 5-10 online events. well... i played 5-10 events but did not put in serious hours by any stretch of the imagination. my wireless internet has been a bastard all week so i took the choo-choo into the city and headed to my boy Tim "BegsCrutch" Begley's apartment to rub elbows with he and his roomate Mez, who would also be grinding the sunday online schedule.
i arrived at their place as the eagles-vikings game was starting, and had entered and busted from 6 mtts before the game was over. I played the sunday majors on both stars and tilt, and a few other midsize buyin events. It was a pretty poor showing all around, as i made definite mistakes in at least two of the events. i won't bore anyone with hand details, but trust me when i say i didn't have my fastball on this particular day. my bustout hand in the ftp 750k was particularly gross. i managed to blow a 6500 basket of biscuits in a limped pot at 50-100 blinds with about the 134th-nut hand.
several hours later i was hating life back at casa de muggins, cleaning my bedroom as punishment for my miserable performance. i glanced online on a whim to see if anyone notable was making noise in the online majors. my good friend mike "goleafsgoeh" leah was still alive slinging below average chips in the ftp 750k guarantee with about 110 runners left. anyway, goleafsgoeh stayed patient and executed some perfectly timed suckouts for his tournament life, and low and behold he is was top 3 in chips with 2 tables left. he made the final table with middle of the road biscuits. unfortunately, he seemed to go pretty card dead, and watched the shortstacks double up a few times before running 1010 into kk and busting ninth. regardless, it was a nice run and a fun sweat for my pathetic ass. congrats to mike... i know he wasn't playing for 9th place, but it was an impressive run nonetheless. this guy has been beasting it on the live tourney scene the last several months, and although he has not hit that elusive monster score yet he is right on the cusp and i'm confident he'll break through in 2009.
anyway, watching him inspired me to play better online and not give up so easily. i was so focused and such a survivor playing live in q4 in 2008, but unfortunately did not experience much success online in the same timeframe. hopefully i turn things around in the very near future-- cuz my azz is stone broke.
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