Afterwards we went to Dave and Busters. Maybe I'm just getting older, but they just didn't seem to have that much "fun stuff". I wouldn't say I didn't have fun, but I was expecting more. Maybe I was just tired. Or maybe it's not as much fun when your mom isn't the one paying $4 to hit a button when you think a light will land on a spot. We won over 3,000 tickets, which I thought was a lot, but turns out it's not that much considering a $50 video game is 50,000 tickets. So what are our 3,000 tickets worth--$3? LOL. I paid $112 for tokens and we won $3 back?! Wow they make a killing.
So in poker news, the infamous Shaun Deeb has said he's calling it quits. He wrote on 2+2 that he is done with tournaments and is sick of what he has become. I don't know if this is the sickest level or if he is serious. Most people seem to think he's serious. It's a pretty sad day for poker if he's serious. To see one of the game's hardest working, truest grinders call it quits really leaves the rest of us like, "where does that leave us?" Shaun is up like $1.5 million in online poker tournaments lifetime. I can feel his pain. We've all had bad runs. We've all thought about quitting. We've all thought, "wtf am I doing sitting behind a computer 8+ hours a day?" Shaun is supposedly on a 4 month breakeven stretch and is down a decent amount live. I can understand it. I just think he needs a break. A nice break to get refreshed and rejuvenate himself and he should, in my eyes, come back and crush.
Yesterday in my $100^3 tourney, I was in tears because of how funny I thought this was. Some guy was playing under the screenname G8vmylifeaway and his avatar was a picture of Shaun Deeb. Now that shit is funny. I actually took a screenshot of it but that is on my desktop at my office. I'll post it next time I am there.
I can feel Shaun's pain. I've said it before, I don't know how anyone can grind mtt's for a living. It's just pain so many days of the month. You play for those few and far between days where you just crush it. I've had a few of those days over the last month. I'm pretty lucky. I'm also pretty due for a downswing.
Yesterday I got 7th in a $55 on Full Tilt. I've been telling everyone I feel like I'm just so due on that site. I've been getting absolutely crushed on Tilt and I just have to win something soon. I really thought I was destined to win the $55 yesterday but things just didn't work out. 7th for $1k.
I also got 22nd in the $11 rebuy on stars. It's so heartbreaking to make it through over 2600 players in a rebuy tournament where first place is $13k, only to finish 21 places away from such a nice score. I really wanted that one. I have never final tabled a true rebuy tournament. I have a bunch of final tables in 1 rebuy and 2 rebuy max tourneys, but never a true unlimited rebuys tournament. My sample size is super small, but it's still a goal of mine that I want to accomplish soon.
Last night at 1am someone told me about probably the best value tournament I've ever seen on Stars. There was a 50,000fpp tournament awarding 9 packages to a tournament in Sydney, Australia which covers the $6.6k buyin, hotel, and you get $2k in spending money. There were only 57 entrants, so this was a pretty nice overlay. I just couldn't get anything going in it and eventually went out QQ to AJ aipf. That one really hurt. Before the tournament started I really thought I was going to win this package. I searched every single player in the tournament on OPR and put a note on them. Pretty disappointing. Maybe I'll play some other type of qualifier. It would just be so sick to go to Australia for 6 days and play in a huge poker tournament with everything paid for.
Man poker is sick.

