-2012 Recap
It all started in February when I met Lee Childs and was introduced to his Inside the Minds training classes. I felt my game was good but I was looking for an edge so I attended and after getting great knowledge from the likes of Lee Childs, Gavin Smith, Dwyte Pilgrim, Jason Young and Matt Glantz. I was off and running.
7 out of 42 cashes in tournaments that register your resutls for $42,775 including a win in Vegas at the Rio deep stack for $34,166 (tried to chop but they wanted to play it out) and a bunch tournaments with near misses.
19 out of 36 cashes in tournaments that don't register your results for $29.238 including 8 final tables 6/147...9/277...3/233...5-way chop/257...4-way chop/151...1/49...3/56...3-way chop/87 and a final table bubble at 11/191
Total in my first Full/Part time season was 26 cashes out of 78 tournaments for $72,013
I Did not cash in my 4 WSOP events in Vegas including my first Main Event but I did play well
I played in theWPT Main event at Parx in August and missed day 2 by 2 levels as I ran into the Aces of Henry Lu who ended up day 1 chip leader. I also played in the WPT Main event at Borgata in September where I got knocked out right after the day 2 dinner break of and finished roughly 290/1197. Some Big game tournament expierience was priceless but again with my Inside the minds training I felt like I had been there before.
Another big Poker move for me came when Blue Shark Optics reached out to me to become a Team USA Pro for them and I thank Kerry again for this amazing oppurtunity that has and is opening a few doors for me including my first radio interview with On Tilt Radio which went well. Blue Shark Optics (TEAM BSO) is well ran by Kerry and Monica and they are the #1 Poker glasses in the world again Im so proud to be affliatted with the BSO family.
2013 goals are to continue to respect this great game who's path has been paved by so many great everyday grinders, Do the best I can and to earn the respect from fellow players. The cashes will come and they will get bigger but being respected is very important to me.
So in closing I would like to thank Lee Childs for all his help as he has guided me in the right direction on and off the felt, and all the new Poker friends and players that I have met in 2012.
Fighters Fight, Players Play but it takes a Winners to Win
Keep an eye on me Antonio "Anthony' Payne
-Team ProPayne
#2013 Its Our Turn
