Hey, I've had dozens of people offering me their condolences for getting 3rd after losing those 70/30's and at least this time around, I feel like I'm pretty much over being super disappointed when I get deep and come up short. In Dortmund last year after coming 5th, I made a blog post entitled fml(it was really short, and was actually not that much complaining but I was really upset, and one of the first readers commented and said "FYL..... WTF FML!!!" or something along those lines and I sort of realized how stupid I was an took it down). This year after busting despite getting it in pretty good in the major hands I lost(JJ v A7o and JJ v ATo for people who didn't watch) I was pretty happy, I could have so easily just came 8th or 500th. I've been realizing so much over the last few months, that basically when playing poker its the money that matters, if you are winning money, you shouldn't be upset about poker and if you are losing money, you shouldn't be upset since you are accepting a profession where you can lose large sums of money over a long period of time. This year I was thinking about how much I expect to make with playing a reasonable amount of live volume, most Sundays and an average of about 1-1.5 other days during the week, and have now made almost twice that in January. If I don't make my goal for the year, then I might go back to the immature ranting Mike of Dortmund last year.

I'm likely going to writeup daily trip reports so you guys can see just how well I ran. For the people who watch my videos and say I need to "play more poker" and outplay more people and do less coolering/getting it in bad and winning, I REALLY don't recommend reading these