Anyone been watching XBlink’s incredible rags to riches story? In his own words;
1. $11 tournament won 1st place —> $750 (all I had on my account, was going to redeposit if i lost the tournament)
2. $750 grinding low stakes omaha.
3. $750 –> $4k the next day, move up to 2/4 and 3/6 PLO, then to 5/10.
4. 4k –>$16k, played 5/10 and 10/20 PLO
5. For the next 2 days, I was bouncing from $20k – $60k playing 10/20 PLO.
6. 5th day: Start 25/50 PLO , I see 6 digits now.
7. 6th day till now – play 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400 PLO, and NL when theres no PLO.Went busto 20+ times by now for $500 each. Hope I dont go busto this time.
From threads on 2p2 it looks like that 6 figure sum is somewhere between $500k and a million dollars. I can’t imagine playing NL10 one week, getting fed up of losing $10 pots, and then a week later playing NL400 with a 100k stack sitting in front of me. Clearly bankroll management is just a conspiracy to keep us in the micros…
Yegor skypes me every now and again with updates of Isildur1′s battles. I said that railing these games was no better than avidly reading ‘Hello’ magazine. So we then dashed off to watch him playing HU NLHE against Brian (Townsend? I can’t remember, I think it was a different Brian – Hastings maybe?). So sad…
