Few Quick updates:

I played and cashed in the WCOOP ME. It was a sick tournament with a huge prize pool, and I actually kind of enjoyed playing in it. My boy, who I had 20% of, made it to day 2. Unfortunately, he ran into a standard cooler 60/40 situation and busted pretty quickly into the second day. So much for grand thoughts of 1.775 milski chopped up between a bunch of my boys. We even talked about how we were insta taking a Benyamine shot. Kind of cool to think about how when I do get the loot and the balls to take a 'shot' I'll have such a huge edge. Also kind of surreal that almost all the 500-1k games that run are much softer than 10-20.

I was on the 2+2 Pokercast recently. The interview was long (mostly because I made it long and didn't short any answers) and thorough. I'm fairly pleased with how it came out, although I did talk a little bit too fast. Nevertheless, Mike and Adam were really good hosts and sounded very educated about me, which led to a lot of good discussion. I'm glad they lived up to the hype as far as giving interviews go, it's certainly not as easy as it looks. I definitely recommend taking a listen to that episode, as they have a short segment from a guy who just cashed for 1m+ in the WCOOP, and another pretty sick live tournament player who I've met a handful of times in real life.

My memoirs series has finally been made public. So far, so good with regards to the interest it has drawn. I'm hoping that it takes a bunch of mediocre midstakes players into the next level. There's more information, along with answering any questions you might have about it, here, in the 2+2 Coaching Advice forum.

Finally, I'm watching the WSOP from this year briefly on reruns (because I can't bear to watch another SportsCenter with the White Sox choking), and Jerry Yang busts with AJ to A9. The amazing thing to me was the way he went out. He gets it in with AJ to A9 when he's very short, probably like 10 big blinds or less (guessing). The flop runs out 9 6 5, and Yang just stares at the table in utter disbelief, saying "unbelievable."

Is this guy serious bro? He won some ridiculous amount of money by playing unbelievably bad poker, and he was amazed that he got sucked out on for like 10 big blinds in the following years event? Shouldn't his reaction have just been, "Thank you Jesus for last year, even if I lose with AJ to A9 everytime for the rest of my life, I will still be running so far and beyond my expectation for my poker career that it won't even be in the same dimension."

If I won 10m or whatever, I would absolutely never complain about anything ever again. Ever.