After the 10k PLO wrapped up, I sat in my car, and did some last minute selling for the 50k Players Championship already underway. Nearing 40 hours of being awake I was feeling a mix of delirium and relief, and while you are able to late register Day 2 of this event, the 50k is Christmas morning to me. I figured I'd be awake all night reading the Day 1 updates regardless, so I may as well hop in now when the blinds are relatively inconsequential, and decompress while playing

Loren Klein and I have an incredible history, but it's something I plan on really elaborating on in the 2018 recap. We'd played twice before this event - The first being the 2014 PLO that I got my first bracelet in, and the second being 3 days prior to this event in the Half NLHE Half PLO, where I would finish in 20th but that he would manage to win. Klein is looking to win bracelets in back-to-back events, and is the last person I feel like playing right now. Fortunately for

The 2016 10k PLO is a predominant blur for me up until the money bubble, which was one of a few that I can recall being as fun as a person could hope for. The only thing that I remember prior to that was sending out a "Feel like shit. Think I'm going to have to skip the PLO" text before the FOMO kicked in an hour into late reg. A day later I'm triple barreling off for my stack 10 from the money. Fortunately the river runs out favorably, bringing a one-liner to a straight, mak

Oh boy, did this blog collect dust! I began parts 1-3.5 in late 2016 with the intention of summarizing the after-effects of my best year on paper ( 2014 ), touching as briefly as possible on a forgettable 2015, and finally offering up a, fresh at the time, 2016 WSOP postmortem. 5 years after the fact it’s tough to know how to approach continuity, and even more difficult to access a reasonable enough recall in an effort to try. I’m flirting with a few approaches for the restar