Also he final tabled SCOOP 1 and SCOOP 28 for $350k in cashes.

And he won a watch, probably this one:

Payouts here.

A week ago I got to tag along with Leo (Superfluous Man) to the NBC HU championship draw party where Gavin Smith about took my arm off barreling up to the stage when his matchup was drawn.  After that was over, apparently Jason (JCarver) was in town on his way to LAPC or something and dropped in to sweat Leo and Negreanu so we went to go get food.  This is always fun because you get to watch Jason sweat and worry about what’s on the menu.

Of course I have the worst sleep schedule ever so I missed the actual games which started at noon the next day.  No spoilers, but while the winner of the whole tournament is disliked by a number of poker players, the result will probably be good from a pr/publicity standpoint.

Jason, Leo, and a bunch of other people came over to my place to watch WEC and eat chicken (obv) on Saturday which was fun.  WSOP is gonna be sick when everyone is in town for a solid month.

I also just ordered a new desktop which I’m pretty excited about.  Basically in the past 10 years I’ve had two desktops, both of which I built myself.  I had a ton of problems with bad hardware on my latest one, and it tends to reboot at random times usually every 1-2 days, though sometimes it might do it 30 minutes after a reboot.  It makes it really annoying to play poker or record a video on.  I have a laptop and even mobile broadband, so if my desktop crashes or if the power or internet goes down I’ll be OK.  If you play cash games and things go wrong, no big deal.  Miss a few orbits of a MTT? Usually no biggie.  If I’m playing a decent number of SNGs and everything dies then I can lose $1500.

Anyway I configured a bunch of stuff on the Dell and HP sites.  Does anyone even do configurable desktops aside from them anymore?  Gateway got bought by Acer, so they don’t.  Sony sort of does but it’s all-in-one stuff I think.  After building a couple of models I really liked I parted it out on newegg/pricewatch to see how much I’d save if I built it myself.  Surprisingly, it was within $100, and that’s with a service plan.  So the new box should be here before the end of the month.  It’s an i7-930 (yeah I know i5 is the sweet spot, but I’m drooling over triple channel and 6 DIMMs, and it was only around $150 more), 12GB DDR3-1066 (6×2GB DIMMs — the board supports 1333 but the manufacturer doesn’t offer it and the speed difference would be negligible), 2×500GB HDD in a RAID 1 configuration, and a Radeon HD 4850 (I don’t play any games really).  Thanks to Eric, nachos, and ultimatemike for letting me bounce ideas off them.

2nd time I’ve won it, holla!