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Congratulations to InstantTragedy for taking down his first Mookie win as well as his first blogger tournament victory.  Here is his profile…

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Champion: InstantTragedy

Blog: Instant Sean

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Q: What is the background of your online name…InstantTragedy?

IT: So I have tried to keep an optimistic attitude toward everything that changed after my wife of six years left me.  I became a very bitter man.  I did not understand the bad luck and fortune that had started to accompany me.  I saw not the good in life but the more realistic in life.  I saw the homeless that I had once pitied as someone that I could be.  I saw the negative in anything.  I had let my divorce affect who I was and what I saw in life.   That was a tragedy.

When I was at work one day I was reminded of a band that I had managed or saw named Tragedy, which played in Lubbock a long time ago.  We were having all sorts of problems on the (WORK COMPUTER SYSTEM) and we were waiting for AV Tech support to call back.  Then it started to rain.  It was the beginning of a long day, and I told “Ah Instant Tragedy: Just Add Water” and he started to laugh asking me where that came from. “This is like some bad dream, some instant meal where all you do is add water and POOF, it’s done”.

So when I decided to go online playing poker I wanted to have fun and Instant Tragedy was born.

Q: How did you get into poker?

IT: I played strategy games with my grandfather and he would let me watch my parents play pinochle when they came to visit on Saturday nights.  I would watch my grandpa and my dad school my mom and grandma.  I was shown blackjack and the 5 card draw.  We’d always be playing cards in our house, when I was in College and even at work. I finished #1 in the West Texas Region of Amateur Poker League and finished 6th in the 2006 APL National Championships.

Q: Do you have any poker related goals and if so what are they?

IT: Just improve my game, try not to make the same mistakes twice and listen to people who have been where I have not.

Q: What are key improvements that you’ve seen in your game over the last six months, and what is one priority you have for improving? (Submitted by CC)

IT: Sometimes you have to fire three bullets knowing that the call monkey will call.  Sometimes you have to leave the bullets in the chamber knowing that you will lose.  Until Wednesday I didn’t know the difference.  I think my poker play has grown for the way that I have seen other players, fire bets into pots that they have no possible chance of winning in an attempt to push people off them.

Q: How would you describe your poker style?

IT: I used to be so passive it was scary.  I used to be so predictable I had Waffles IMing me “Bluff, half bluff. You got the nuts.”  Hell if Waffles can figure me out, what chance do I have of winning.  So I mixed it up.  I was strong passive weak aggressive.  And it paid off.

Q: What would be your first piece of advice for someone wanting to learn to play poker? (Submitted by Maudie)

IT: Don’t play with scared money and don’t play above your bankroll limit.  My first deposit was gone in a blink because I played it too scared and I played above my limit.  I made a second deposit and I haven’t EVER since that moment gone busto again.

Q: What level of static do you get over your poker habit? (Submitted by Drewspop)

IT: I really don’t get much static from anyone since I am divorced and single.  I have an understanding family who encourages me to be the very best I can.  I’ve had to leave tournaments due to work and one to pick up a friend who was in an accident.  Life is too short to get static over a game.

Q: What was the first poker blog you read?

IT: I was sent a link by a friend back in 2005 to both Alcanthang and Tao of Poker from then on it’s history. (Not saying which I clicked first)

Q: Who would be at your 6-handed SNG?

IT: The Pros:
Comedy:                                                                   Daniel Negreanu
Mouth/Tilting Purposes:                                              Phil Hellmuth
Someone to drink alcanthang under the table               Gavin Smith
The Cons:
Someone to tilt Hellmuth                                            Waffles
Instant Tragedy

Q: Between Nihilism and Masochism, which do you think better describes why you play poker? (Submitted by Iakaris)

IT: Masochism – I am called Tragedy RIGHT!

Q: What’s the last book you have read?

IT: The Bishop’s Boys – A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Q: Tell us a little known fact about yourself.

IT: My life is an open book so there are truly very little not known about me but, here goes… I have to sleep on the left side of the bed. I am unable to sleep unless I am on my right side.

Q: What is your proudest accomplishment in poker and why? (Submitted by TuscaloosaJohn)

IT: I think 8th place at the first blogger tournament back in December.  I was on information overload, trying to make sure that Doc Chako’s guitar was signed by everyone, and Falstaff let me have the honor of explaining the guitar and introducing The Wife who said Shuffle Up and Deal over the speakers to the entire poker room. I don’t remember the first hour because I was shaking too hard from the applause from not just our tables, but from the entire poker room.

IT’s question(s) for the next champ…

Just one? How about?

TRAGEDY’S SIX DEADLY QUESTIONS!

Ducks or Aces?
Floyd or Zeppelin?
Best Player Evah: Hellmuth or Ivey?
Who is hotter? Evy or Joanada? (If champ is male)
or Icrushbloggers or Hoy? (If champ is Female or Hoy)
Who wins Mookie next?  Surflexus  or Mookie/Hoy combination
And the traditional end of Tragedy’s Six Deadly questions:
Roar or BOOOOOOOM?

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Congrats again to InstantTragedy and thanks for participating in this profile.

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