Noice!!!!!!

Excellent poker day. Made up for several previous days; in fact, put me back in the black for the month, if you count a $370 ticket win as pure profit (and I do).

Played in a $22+2 sng to near perfection, taking it down with what I felt was three key pots, all of which I played absolutely perfectly. I was so fucking stoked, getting a win a really felt like I deserved, that I entered into a $16 satellite tournament to Sunday's best chance to get into the WSOP, a $350+20 event with 150 guaranteed seats. That means they expect 4500+ entries to the tournament, and chances are probably pretty good they get 5000+. Nevertheless, with 150 guaranteed $10,000 prizes, I really feel like it's possible. This is the best chance I've had to qualify for the WSOP, and doing so would be a hell of an experience (I would even get to go, since work that week won't be all that bad at all).

Well, I qualified, despite one big mistake (I ran headlong into aces with top pair, and went all in like a donkey; luckily the guy was a mid-stack and I was chip leader at the time), just by playing smart poker and making one sick bluff calldown. I was lucky enough to take some chips off some pure retards early,

I really have no set plans as to a strategy for the big satellite, as I don't really believe in coming into a tournament like that with a satellite, just by not making mistakes and making +EV moves. I'll certainly be evaluating my opening table to see if it's one where a hyper-aggressive style will pay off, and then just try to play good poker, based on whatever kind of table I wind up with.

Still, pretty cool.