One Card Away

The Castle of Pain notched its second final table of the Series Wednesday as Seth Fischer made his first live tournament cash a good one with a second place finish in the $2500 6-handed event for $330k. Heads up near the end of a zany final table, Seth had Dario Minieri all-in with 43s against his kings, but Dario flopped a flush draw and then hit running fours for the critical pot and won it a bit later.

Before the final table I was chatting Seth up trying to get him to talk about how the money would change his life and he said something that took me aback for a second, then made a lot of sense. Seth said he's a good poker player and "the money will come" and what he really wanted was the bracelet. I was stunned to hear this as a top 3 finish would be 10x his biggest previous score and he had never played in the WSOP before a few days ago.

It makes sense and I will try to remember those words as the WSOP continues and I continue to play the circuit. Good players are going to be big winners in the long term; sweating the variance tournament by tournament is just stressful and pointless.