I’m sitting in the O’hare airport waiting for my flight back to LV and I’ve already had quite the day. I woke up this morning, checked my bank account and found a rather large withdrawal from my air card. I spent an hour on the phone with the company only to discover that I apparently went way over my usage for the month. Not only that but apparently my next phone bill is going to cost me 800 dollars and I couldn’t be more pissed. I’ve had nothing but problems with the card (this is my 3rd one) constant connection problems and it really pisses me off. To top it all off I haven’t even been able to connect to internet for the last 1.5 weeks yet I somehow slammed my max usage by 3 gigabites? Hopefully I’ll get my money back somehow.

Anyways, I accidentally sent a wrong stars screen name three transfers for a decent amount of money. I finally figured it out the intended recipient wasn’t getting the money instead, some random person who has the same screen name as one of my horses on a different site was making bank. I emailed stars support and since the payer hadn’t logged on in a long time they were able to re-transfer the money to back my account. I love Pokerstars. They are the only site that continually steps up to the plate and hits home runs, except for the tourney payouts but hopefully that will step up too.

Anyways I’m just gonna relax tonight and put in a really long session tomorrow probably playing 12+ tables at a time for most of the day. I didn’t make my August profit goal (yet) but a couple tourney wins will lock that up. My September goals are even higher and I’m really excited to get my ROI back up where it should be. The inaugural Itwassuited.com open will be posted in a few days. I’m excited to have a private tourney with a bunch of people that we all know. It should make for good times. There will be a bounty on bustouts for IcallSeat3′ and myself for an undetermined amount. Anyways, it should be a good time. More info will come on that when the time is right. That’s all for now, best of luck at the tables!

5 hours later of delayage and I finally board the plane.. F ohare.

Well, as many of you know, Sundays are normally brutal for most MTT grinders. For some reason I couldn’t sleep last night because I kept thinking about the Sunday tourneys. I woke up with a winner’s mentality, ready to win; only one problem, I didn’t. You can honestly play your best poker ever and still lose thousands of dollars in a day. It’s heartbreaking because the highs can be so high, but the lows can be brutally low. I’ll be taking off of poker a week which is the longest break thus far in my career. It will be nice to do things that have nothing to do with poker.

Spadeskillz once again went deep where he took 3rd in a 6 max tourney for 3k and change. I ended up finishing 15th in the same tourney. It would have been pretty awesome to be at a final table with my roomie but it just didn’t happen. BigChipsHi also went deep in the 80k 55 tourney. First paid 21k but he busted out in 8th for 2500 or so. Last but not least, Lag-tard Vtlaxer went deep in the FTOPS Main but busted with AJdd vs 66 on an 8d4d2h board for a top 20 stack; so disappointing. It’s just a matter of time before these guys pop off a huge score.

There are two spots remaining for fantasy football league that ItwasSuited is running so get in it while you still can. The draft is Aug 30th. We plan on running an ItwasSuited open type tourney. We will have a few bounties on a few of my horsies and I. We are aiming for the first week of September and plan to make it monthly but, if we get more traffic, we could make it a weekly thing. A definitive date will be posted in the forums when the date and time are finalized.

I plan on writing a blog or two a week about strategy to succeed at poker from a mental standpoint. During downswings you have a lot of time for reflections and I think writing a few blog posts on mental strategy will help my game as well. Best of luck at the tables.

Just finished my first personal trainer session at the local gym here in Las Vegas. It was intense to say the least. I’m sure in a few days I’m going to be sore in spots I didn’t know existed. Currently my weight is 207 which it has been at for about 6 months. I’ve already come a long way considering a year and a half ago I was around 240. I think having a trainer there to push me will help me in the long run to stay healthy. On the poker front, I have been taking days off like they are going out of style. I am going to Chicago to visit my lover for a week so it’ll be good to get away from the game and just relax. Other than traveling, I got a staking offer for the 2500 FTOPS which I may accept, if not, I’ll definitely play the full load on Sunday and try to make some money.

Congrats to Spadeskillz, Icallseat3, Striker1114 and BigHuni for having huge weeks on the virtual felt. Spadeskillz has improved so much over the last few months that I think it will help my game as well. If you haven’t checked out Scott (IcallSeat3) Sitron’s blog you can find it here. He is the only player I know that I will willingly admit is better then me. Best of luck at the tables!

This morning, feeling super fresh, I woke up at 8:30am and ate a banana and jellied toast while awaiting the long day of Sunday majors I’ve come accustomed to. At 9:00am I fired up the tourneys but ran pretty awful early. As the day progressed, I continued to build my stack in the Sunday Million in which I wound up in the final 120 yet busted on a re-steal gone wrong. I seriously felt like people just 3 bet me non-stop and lately it has been really hard for me to get a chip in the pot. Maybe I am just opening it up too much when I should be sitting back and waiting for hands. Overall, I am really sick of folding ‘til I am forced to shove and rely on a coin flip or 60/40.

I did make money today which is always a good thing; however, I don’t think I’ve been playing my A game lately. I started reading a book by Dr. Phil called “Self Matters”. The content is about viewing yourself in a better, more self-assured way and I really think it will do a lot for my confidence in the long run. I am trying to implement a stricter daily routine: getting up in the morning, working out, eating well and even showering before I play a session. In addition, I think it’s important to schedule one or two days off per week so I can get away from the game and clear my head. For so long I was completely consumed by the game and now, I can honestly say I’m not “addicted” as I once was.

I posted a hand from the Sunday Million on the forum that I think is more difficult than it may appear. Congrats to my horsie Mikey who went deep in the Sunday Million. I plan to attempt updating a few times per week but that’s all for now, gl at the tables!

Hey guys, This site is about to be launched…

I plan on updating the blog often and if anyone else wants to blog from here they are more then welcome to. We have big plans for this site and will be focusing on:

• Community forum
• Freerolls
• Player backing to quality players

To be eligible for any player backing or freerolls you’ll have to be a member of the community, so sign up for the forum when you get time and i’ll see you in tourney strat!