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Things that really piss me off.

October 4th, 2008

1. Questioning how someone can be with someone who is going to ” gamble all of your money away”

The whole ” lose all your money” think probably ercks me the most.. Thats why I am mostly associated with poker players and pepople that play for a living, because they understand. If you think I want to play poker for a living for the rest of my life you are sadly mistaken.. Its simply a tool to secure my future, family and myself. What are your plans for life??? Also, I enjoy the life poker has given me, just because you are miserable and can’t hold down a job( fucking sucker) quit trying to bring down other people with you.. It seriously really pisses me off that people cant be happy for others. I guess jealousy is natural though. I also think its hilarious when people try to tell you what you should be doing with YOUR life… Thats the greatest thing ive learned through this whole poker journey, you get people that love you when your on top, but once you slide down that rock a little bit they are nowhere around.. One of my goals in life is to not have to work for some boss that im probably smarter then, or for a company that is ran like a concentration camp… I don’t want to wake up and get to work by 9 am and hope my boss isnt mad at me for god knows what reason. I busted my balls for years in some shitty ass jobs just tryin to get enough money to live. I don’t wnat to do it again. Just because you have no future plans, doesnt mean you should bring down others with you. If people don’t like you for who you are, then there is no point in even trying to meet them. Ive already exceeded my expectations in life and I havent even started yet.

Arrgh

October 4th, 2008

So this past week Ive played very little.. I played alot of hours but I feel like I didn’t play that much.. Last Sunday I got crushed in the Sunday Tourneys.. probably my worst Sunday ever.. I played the Bellagio 500 on wednesday and went deep in it busting 15th.. I played the 2k on Thursaday and the field was littered with sickos, I wont be playing any of those prelims anymore. Anyways, I went from Sunday to -Friday without playing a MTT online, probably my longest days streak of not playing in like 5 years… It felt good, I played 4 mtts this week and didn’t cash in any ( not that it means anything). Congrats to Scotty for taking 7th in the 2k, hes such a sicko.

If anyone has any small business ideas for me Id love to hear them.. I want to start up some type of small business to occupy alot of my time and im coming up with complete blanks, Im so bored with life in general, My daily routine is the same every day and there isnt much variety, if I can get into a profitable project I think it would do alot for my mindset. Sorry this is a complete rambled mess, but thats how I feel right now.

Hunger

September 24th, 2008

The title of this blog says it all… The hunger is finally back, the will to succeed.. dominate, whatever.. is back. I got complacent for a while after the two big scores and Winning the UB major even furthered my complacency.. I thought I could just play my C game and still make a ton of final tables.. 4 years ago thatd be the case, but the players are way too good in todays game.. Last night I won the 23KO on FTP outright. Winning a tourney does great things to my confidence, even if it was a 20-180 man.. it would give me that confidence to dominate… Today I had some money put in my UB account because I plan on winning a Triple crown this week, I final tabled both of the tourneys I played on UB but busted in 6th twice. I also final tabled the nightly 100k but busted in a disappointing 5th.. either way im playing really well again and plan to finish out this year really strong. Best of luck

Sunday Majors, Life, etc.

September 22nd, 2008

Yesterday I woke up ready to win the 5200 WCOOP Main Event, and the FTP 500..  I busted in the 4th hour of the WCOOP Main after not being able to get much going.. and I went deep in the ftp 500 but busted when I shoved 15 bbs on the button with 5s, only to be snapped called by the sbs 66. This week I am going to play 100 6 max sngs at 109 level +.. I think Im finally done with tourneys for the most part because if you look at my volume in the last few weeks, its probably the lowest its been in a long time. The Doylesroom tourney is next Saturday and Ill probably play that… You probably wont see me in too many tourneys anymore, im going to focus on higher stakes sngs and maybe the occasional cash games. Ill still be around for the Sunday Majors, and the occasional weekly donkament. I just can’t deal with how stressed I get after a few days of MTTs… If I keep at the pace I am now im going to have a heart attack at 30. I change my mind all the time though so we’ll see:)  Best of luck at the tables.

Itwassuited tourney!!!

September 7th, 2008

My goal at the beginning of the month was to play 40k cash game hands at 6 max nl and full ring. Coming into this post I’ve only played 5500 hands but I think taking a few days off and focusing on cash games has really helped my mindset and my tourney game. I realized I wasn’t three betting nearly enough in the middle stages of tourneys. As such, I took obvious three betting cash game hands and situations and applied them to tourneys. It must have worked because I won big double B after a long heads up battle with a solid player named ManchVegasPwn on the forums.

 

The first ItwasSuited.com Invitational tourney will be next Wednesday September 10th at 6pm Pacific time. This should cater to the east coast players and the west coast players. The entry fee will be 10 dollars +1 and there will be 50+5 dollar stake bounties on ICallSeat3 as well as myself. If you knock us out you get staked in a one-time 50 dollar buy-in 50k guaranteed tourney at a standard 50-50 deal. So, if you have nothing to do next Wednesday, come join us on Pokerstars in the private area. It will say ItwasSuited.com invitational pw is itwassuited. Also, you must be a member on the site to collect the bounty.