By Bond18 on March 5th, 2008 (more posts by author)

I won my second triple crown today. The triple crown consists of winning 3 tournaments on 3 different sites with a prize pool over $10,000 and 100 players or more. I won another some time ago (about 9 months perhaps) after numerous close calls and lots of effort. This time around I happened to simply get lucky in two tournaments on one day, then made some effort towards winning third. I had no idea it’d be such a substantial win.

I won the Stars 10pm (Central) 20k guaranteed $109 tournament tonight, which normally gets around 400 guys, 432 tonight specifically. First was $9,310 and as long as I’m shamelessly bragging I made the final table of the Stars $22 rebuys but busted out 8th.

The totals for the triple crown look like:
Mar 05, 2008: Stars $109 for $9310
Feb 28, 2008: Full Tilt $109 rebuys for $35,890
Feb 28, 2008: UB $30 rebuys for $5130.

I’ve been putting in a ton of volume lately and it feels good to get such a solid return. Meanwhile I thought further about what I wrote yesterday. Kyle (Edward Dantes) IM’d me with some words of advice as my writing attempts to gain greater reach. He, like David Huber at Pocketfives, advised just about the total removal of profanity in material meant to reach a larger audience. He pointed out Hunter S. Thompsons work as an example for way to be both creatively insulting without vulgar. I read over Thompsons eulogy of Richard M. Nixon, and as Kyle said the eulogy is as about as scathing and offensive as can be, without the kind of language that prevents it from being publishable. Man, Thompson REALLY hated Nixon. Either way, both Kyle and David are right. Being entirely uncompromising to make slight changes is unreasonable. If the heart of the content is being butchered I’d feel uncomfortable, but I can live with edits and adjustments. As long as I get to compare people I don’t like to skat porn. Not that I have anything against Fischman, I’ve never met the guy and when we did play, it wasn’t me sucked out on when restealing 54s with absolutely zero fold equity.

Meanwhile I received news today as devastating as any I can remember, Brett Favre has retired from the NFL. Whatever you want to say about Favre being overrated, overly aggressive, or downright foolish for picking a time to quit when his last throw was an interception and his returning team is a force, you have to respect the man that made the game as fun to watch as any in memory. In all my years of watching the Pack there’s never been anyone else at the helm. To me, he defines everything enthralling about the game of football. Having never watched the Pack without Favre, I wonder if I’ll really feel the same thing next year, when no matter the quality of the team, something will feel off. Here’s hoping he changes his mind. I’m already missing watching him play.