Honestly I feel pretty relaxed. Happy, but I would have been happy no matter what happened today. Don't get me wrong I'm pretty excited about winning, but throughout the tournament I was kind of meditating and sort of psyching myself out that it was just another tournament and to detach myself from the results. I didn't want to get upset if I bust in 10th place with AA or something. So in order to manage that I have to not get too excited when I win the whole damn thing. Probably will hit me tomorrow. A little scared cause I got a lot of unsecured money floating out in space, but gotta push that out of my mind for now.

Mostly I'm just tired.



I still might end up getting a job. I'm not ruling it out.

Congrats, dude!

Ayyyyeee congrats rick

Grats, mang. You can buy a sweet RV to replace your van.

Wow, what a turn of events this past month has been, congrats Rick

He's still the goat...nothing's changed

Well now I'm not impressed at all. What a chump.

I'll buy as much action as you're willing to sell.

( ) banned Rick
( ) Simple Rick
(X) Lucky Rick

Nice run my man, congrats!

Thanks!

Thanks buddy!

Hell yeah, thanks. I'm gonna buy a lambo!

Thanks! I like that I got the win on the 31st yesterday so it's all in the same calendar month.



We out here hitting homeruns!



Word.

Thanks!

I was thinking about instead of retiring to get a part time job at like Starbucks or something just for health benefits. Kinda like American Beauty style.

You going to cash some out into BTC?

HOLY ****

LOVE TO SEE IT

Wow congrats!!!

Come a long way from the quiet super tight guy I played 5/10 with at the Commerce a few times.

Let's go, Rick. Well done. Well done.

Do americans have to pay tax on poker winnings? Invest in some property , don't blow it this time. WD. Mtts for life.

So yesterday the guy who got third place was a complete donk. When there was only two tables left he had 900k and the blinds were 50k-100k. He opened in MP for 300k with I swear to god 84os. 8effing 4 offsuit. The big blind called and the flop was 765xhh and he gets it in vs J7hh and doubles up. It was mind boggling insane to see this guy win this hand and then continue to get lucky. At the final table this guy doubled up vs the chip leader jamming T8os on an 8 high flop and sucking out on JJ. When it was 3 handed the stacks were pretty similar at first and I was just intent on not going out in 3rd. My plan was to play extra tight and try to get heads up. 1st-134k 2nd-92k 3rd-63k. So I can make 30k just by folding. And the jump between 1st and 2nd isn't that much greater so with 3 even stacks the correct play is to just play extra tight for a 3 handed match. So that's basically what I did. Just play patient and outlast the 84os guy. I made some incredibly tight laydowns for 3 handed. But also incredibly was this player was on my right for the final table and I was constantly getting walks. I think because I shoved a couple of times when he limped in on me. Overally everything just kind of went perfectly yesterday.

All-in hands that I can remember are the AJ>JT and KK>AA early in the tournament. Then later on I won AK>JJ all in preflop and I rivered the ace that was for like 80 or 90% of my chips. Then I got a big double up with like 12 left or something with JJ>77 all in pre. I doubled up again on the final table with AA>22 all in pre. And then of course the last 3 hands of the heads up match were Q3>Q8 all in on the turn of Q246 and I bink the 5 on the river to double and take the lead. Then next hand I get JJ and raise flop was TTx something turn was a 7 and I won a medium pot vs K7. Then the very last hand of the tournament we got it all in with JJvs AQcc. Flop was JT9 so he was live until the T on the turn. What a tremendous feeling. So much fun.

At one point in the final table I was kind of nervous and just thinking to myself that I wanted this to be over already. The first three players busted kind of fast but then 6 handed lasted a while felt like at least an hour. The short stack player was always winning the all-in. Then I thought to myself I was in a bad mindset and to just try to enjoy the game. And that's what I did, just put my fear and nerves in the back of my mind and just focused on having fun.

I'm thinking more like become the Dude from Big Lebowski and just hang out and go the bowling alley all day.

Yeah, not gonna leave it all on Ignition that's for sure.

Thanks! Love to feel it!

Thanks. I'm still just as super tight. I basically folded my way to second place and then won a couple of hands to win the tournament. Anyone who was railing can confirm. Easy game.

Thank you.

Thanks. Yeah gotta pay taxes. Don't have to worry about it for a while. Gotta look into all the legal loopholes I can to minimize my tax burden. Not gonna blow it this time, not likely. MTTs are stupid.

Tax wise you couldn't have binked at a better time with it being the start of the year. You're essentially getting a nice discount on any buyins so def would be the perfect year to take your main event shot if that's what you really want to do, assuming the main ends up going off which I imagine it will.

Is it weird that I'm looking at the $470+30 monster stack super high roller and thinking "too rich for my blood" or that I'm going back to playing 200nl today? Tournaments are stupid.

Yeah exactly, I don't have to pay taxes on what I lose back!

I played the $55 nightly, the $82 thousandaire maker and the $500 monster stack super high roller and I busted all three. I'll probably take tomorrow off I just thought it would be funny to bink another tournament tonight.

Congrats mate thats one sick score.

Reading this bought a big smile to my face this morning

World's apart we may be but who wouldn't give this one a big

Lol man I'm rereading through this thread and there's some pretty funny stuff. It's kind of fallen off lately without the ability to play live. How the eff is this thread only 3 stars though? I guess I pissed a lot of people off. Worth reading imo if you guys haven't been through it all. I'm trying to read other people's pgcs too that I haven't read all of yet.

-The Hammer

Thanks. Everyone once in a while I remember that I won and freak out a little bit in a good way. It's slowly hitting me more and more.

Glad to hear it, thanks. All the congrats and happiness for me makes me happy knowing that people are rooting for me.

This is just a awesome story all the way around, congratulations man!!!! If you look back in your thread probaly a couple of years or so ago i told you to fire the occasional 3-$500 live tourney cuz when you did finally get there it would mean life changing money for you. You really just gonna continue playing 200NL? I mean you're basically overrolled for 5/10 but youre not gonna give 2/5 a shot now on bonition? Also what is the 1 thing you are going to treat yourself to with some of those winnings if you already haven't? Congrats again!

That's probably a good thing!!!