Victory

At last, at last. Victory has come home to roost. In this game where people want to play because of their skill, luck still reigns supreme and so it should. I took down a $2 turbo last week and here is the congratulatory e-mail:

PokerStars Tournament #145140747, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $2.00/$0.202934 playersTotal Prize Pool: $5868.00Tournament started 2009/03/04 0:00:00 ET
Dear supercase,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $864.95 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

The proof is always in the pudding but I also have bad news about the whole ordeal. I was on ubber monkey tilt from the start. I have a few friends on Skype that can confirm all this. I was planning on cashing out everything and calling an end to this perversion called poker. I intentionally played a $2 turbo MTT hoping to see that this was a useless endeavour. I had to fold a couple of very good hole card hands due to aggression and that sent me off into neverland. I was shoving hands like 46o and getting there. Jacks rivered Queens and I cheered. By the time I came back to my senses, I was the chip leader with 100 or so runners left. The rest became a big sng for me and history for the books.

A few days after that, I was playing a 90man sng with a friend and took it down. During which time I got dealt premium hands like I'd never seen before. It leads to a strange sense of awe about the game that is tournament poker. Very, very difficult to play and maintain some sense of sanity due to all the variance the structure itself creates. You know what cards to play but just don't get them. Now, you're running out of chips and no where to go but the rail unless you pick a hand. At the same time, everyone else at the table feels exactly the same way. When you add it all together, it's still very confusing!!

Here's what I can say for now. WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
We're bankrolled for a while longer and will just have to see how far the rabbit hole goes!!!!
Good luck everyone. See you on the tables.

Rodney