I figured with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) upon us I would talk a little about my breakout year in 2006. I think it makes sense to backtrack and set things up, though. Prior to the 2006 WSOP, I had played only two live events ever (I never even played the $100 buy-ins at the local casino). I had played pretty poorly earlier that year in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and was unhappy with my play. I built on that experience when I won a satellite into the L.A. Poker Classic in February. I played much better there without all of the jitters that go along with playing live and actually bubbled the five day event. I played against a lot of really good players in that tournament and was feeling much more confident in my ability to play live after hanging in there for three days. If my J-J had held against A-K, I would have had a nice stack on the bubble and been in good position to make a solid run in only my second live tournament ever. With that in mind and after winning the PokerStars Sunday Million in March, I was pretty pumped going into the ...