No Limit Texas Hold 'Em SNGs and MTTs are what I play!

The HIGHER the buy-ins, the BETTER!

What I like about Tourneys is that there's a Beginning, a Middle, and an End!

And as you're buckled-in (you CAN'T leave until), the blinds keep going up, up, up, and UP (you can't leave)!

Ring games just get me bored, eventually. They're not in my DNA. They're just not. I only ever played them very occasionally. And recently, late last year right here, I got a bit antsy. I felt stagnant, 'stuck' in the 150/170M 'zone', winning some tourneys, losing some. Make that, losing MORE!

Out of sheer competitive ambition despite this all being play-money, I simply wanted to get to 200M. So I played my occasional ring game(s) but did so at real, REAL high-stakes. I thought that I play it "right" and "patient" for a while, win a sick pot or two that'd be enough to take me there, then cash-out right away.

Well, long story short, I end up falling all the way down to the 50Ms. However, slowly but surely, and with the help of a weekend high-stakes 1st place MMT finish or two, I made it all the way back to where I fell from. And then with the help of a few more MTT successes, I am now (as I write this, early-March 2024) just over 200M. And now it's off to the NEXT goal - 300M! And then 400, 500, and so on!

Yes, I'm a (10th Avenue) FREEZEOUT man through and through! Never say never, but I am almost CERTAIN that I'll never partake in another ring game session ever again albeit play, or Real, money. Apologies to those real dedicated and talented ring game Sharks here on this site who may have been able to win some more off of me had I kept at it (another tens of millions, perhaps). You'll all have to profit from someone else, lol! I have more than enough trouble here climbing the ranks in Tourneys (SO many talented players who school the heck out of me)! But it's a BETTER, lesser-of-both-evils, kind of 'trouble' for me!

And back TO the relatively (again...relatively) much more pleasant topic of...TOURNEYS...

I'm REALLY into Heads-Up SNGs as well!
It's the closest that Poker ever gets to Chess.

I can very seriously play for no money with EXACTLY AS MUCH competitive passion as I can for Real money! Serious!! My game is the SAME, no matter what.

Example - despite me never showing bad sportsmanship nor belligerence toward my opponents, I have already broken my laptop not once, but twice, playing on this site and another no-money site. And, of course, I did a similar such thing for REAL money; I broke a mouse.

Yes! NO-MONEY situations, mind you! THAT'S how passionately competitive I am when it comes to this very thing! But it's been quite a while now and I'm really confident that it will never happen again. It's only a game.

I really, really wish more on this site would partake in the high-stakes SNGs. I'm sort-of talking the 1Ms. But not really. No. I'm talking the 2.5Ms and 5Ms (why not Heads-Up games with those very stakes?) while wishing to death that there were 10M and even 25Ms (which, of course, goes for MTTs too)!

If you are one of the few who do partake in the 1M, 2.5M, and 5M SNGs, then I'll see you at them (when they finally DO fill, that is). And if you partake in the MTTs of those very same stakes, then I'll see you at those as well!

Good luck,
re1ayer

"Let's play some ****-in cards!"