Trials and Tribulations of an Internet Grinder

Those were the famous words shouted by Scotty Ngynn after taking down the 1998 World Series of Poker main event. Last night at about 3:30 a.m., I too shouted those words after winning a $33 buy-in tournament with 1060 entrants. The prize for this feat was a cool $7.2k!(almost 4 times my current bankroll!) I know in the big shceme of things it is not that big of a deal but for me this couldn;t ahve come at a better time. Before entering the tourney last night I was at the lowest point, emotionally, of my poker career. Nothing was going right, although I was playing good poker, and my bankroll was dwindling down to the $2k mark after ahving it up to $3.5k last week. I feel like a huge burdon has been lifted off my back and now instead of worrying about grining it out as much as possible, I can really focus on my game and try to break into the $55's. This next week I will be tweaking my game and making some major observations and adjumstments so watch out for the new Zach next week.

Since this was my first tourney win over 30 people I will be posting a full tourney report on Sunday. It will include all key hands and my proud moment of busting Gigabet when we were down to 4 handed. For those that don;t know Gigabet aka Darrel Dinkins is widely regarded as one of the best if not the best online poker players in the world. I learned a lot from palying a shortahnded final table with him, which was like a bonus on top of the money. I almost equate it to getting to sit at a live table with soemone like Phil Ivey. Well that's it for now I just thought I would update so you all didn;t think I had jumped off a bridge.

Holler. Yeah Son.