I played tournaments Friday and Sunday and did reasonably well, Friday I had like 13k in cashes across 3k in buyins(won a WSOP satelite and got 2nd in another), and Sunday I had like 17.5k in cashes across 11.5k in buyins.

On Sunday I had my friend over to play tournaments and when his tournaments were on break he saw my Dortmund trophy(thinly veiled brag) and was asking the inevitable question about whether I've ever drank from it(probably been asked this 2 dozen times since its like a vase). I keep a bunch of random stuff on the same shelf(shoe boxes, unopened mail, a champagne glass, my old Timex watch, and a bunch of other random stuff) and he assumed they were all awards of one sort or another. He asked about this one thing which I got as a gift which basically contains a message from someone and is supposed to be lucky so long as you keep it in plain site and never look at the message. If you get rid of it, look at the message, put it in a drawer etc its supposed to be unlucky. I forgot about this thing and obviously opened the message when I was part way through the 59 Super Turbo on full tilt. Within about 6 hands I 30/70's my way from below average to a top 10 stack. I kept running stupidly hot and eventually cashed it, got aces a ton and eventually went through the 1200 player field(probably one of the biggest field tournaments I've won) for 11k. Not to say that I believe in things that are/aren't lucky, but after looking, I was more or less thinking it would be nice to have an excuse as to why I ran bad on Sunday, but after running good I'm just confused.

The last couple days I've been grinding watching episodes of "Breaking Bad", its a TV show about a chemistry teacher who gets cancer and to pay for his bills/leave money for his family after he dies and decides he wants to live a little, so he starts making and selling meth. Its been pretty good so far but a little more serious than I expected(was expecting an Entourage type show that is all glamour and not that intense, but this is kind of the opposite, but still good)

Also congrats to practically everyone who got deep in the 40k, I was cheering for like 1/2 of the field. Was hoping for the Brian v Dani HU match, but no one could close, and I ended up knowing 6 of the final 7 but not the winner. I hope that the sweats continue this WSOP, good luck everyone.

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