Jimmy Fricke

A lot of people have commented on the fact that I didn't actually post a report every day at Turning Stone, and that came from the fact that my sleep schedule turned to hell when it shouldn't have and my routine of writing before going to sleep was thrown completely out the window. So, to recap the whole trip:

I won the $325+40 bounty tournament. I call this a win, though some will point out that I chopped the tournament while headsup. I had a 5:1 chiplead and the tournament staff in all their infinite wisdom decided not to pay the dealers to deal after 2 AM, so they completely forced us to stop until the next day at 4 PM. Now, I never chop unless I get a very good deal. It's not because I have a policy on not chopping or I disagree with the philosophy of it, it's because people don't often give you good deals and you might as well play if you think you have an edge over your chip equity. I definitely know I had an edge headsup and obviously a huge edge in chips, but my options were:

1) Chop then, play the 6max the next day.
2) Come back the next day at 4 PM to play out a 30 minute headsup match deep in the 6max tournament if I'm still in, taking 30 minutes of blinds/antes out of my stack.

Completely ridiculous, but I decided to chop because I didn't want to have to come back to play out the tournament the next day when I could use my time for better things. Unfortunately I ended up giving up too much money in the chop because I did the quick math wrong in my head. Oh well.

Next thing that happened was my good friend Matt LaGarde got 2nd in the 1k tournament for $36k. Good job Matt, much more success in the future for you please.

RandAllin/Randal Flowers chopped the 5k event for $105k while 4 handed. Great score Randal, hope to see you crush live tournaments more in the future. JSchnett/Jeff Schnettler also final tabled the same tournament, so good job him too.

Overall it was a good trip, but I don't know if I'm going back to TS since my schedule for the rest of this year is super packed and I turn 21 next year and thus there will be a lot better choices for me than turning stone. We'll see.

I leave Sunday for barcelona and the EPT there. Talk to you all before I go.