Abby Merk

Oof, good, but it's tough.

I mean, I think, truthfully, I think the thing that people underestimate the most about that is because the difficult part is not cash games.

Like, anybody can book a win in a cash game.

That's kind of what makes poker so good is that anyone can do it.

But the tournaments add up.

Like, it is really hard to run deep in a tournament.

And, like, truthfully, those tournaments, they're expensive.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

So it was kind of brutal because, like, at the beginning of my series, I was playing a mix of, like, cash and tournaments, but I was really trying to hit it big.

Like, I was not trying to make 10K.

I was trying to make, like, 100K, but realistically try to make, like, 10K or something like that.

And then, long story short, I was buying into these, like, $1,100 tournaments, like, all by myself, and I realized very quickly that that strategy was going to have to change if I wanted any chance of making 10K because 1,100 adds up.

A lot.

Exactly, yeah.

No, for sure.

It's a very different game.

And truthfully, I think in cash, it's very different because you're normally deep stack.

So a lot of these cash game pros, if they come into tournaments, they'll do well in the first couple levels.

But when things start to get shorter and the blinds go up and things like that, they really struggle.

So I feel like, whereas on the opposite, I'm like a short stack legend.