I was not lol. What I mean is I was planning on it. My rating had gone up from 913 to 987 with no dips in two years, around 70 rounds on my profile, and wasnt slowing down. I'd just beaten Barsby and a bunch of guys in town for Worlds, along with winning a lot of local events, finishing top 3 at AmNats (salty note: I was the highest finishing Am at the event that year), and so on...
I played about 50 events in 2007 as a pure Adv and 50 in Adv/Open (the unsanctioned scene was a lot bigger) - over about 35-40 weekends of the year... and was more than covering my travel expenses around the OH/IN/KY/MI region. But touring more than regionally wasn't something I could do finishing up a degree. I didn't actually play my first NT until after I decided I couldn't do it, the 08 Hambrick. Though Roscoes Revenge may as well have been an NT (tangentially, I believe that was Wysockis first pro tournament).
I didn't get to have that awesome experience. I decided it was financially not-viable while covering student loans that someone else had co-signed. I had made a bad decision out of HS and went to a 30K+ per year university mostly on loans. Non-federal loans. So the warnings that the bills were coming in were immediately too much.
I remain convinced, based on playing with various touring players, that my peak level as a player was probably approximately Ulibarri.
I promised myself in 2009 that I'd get out there, and plan on on showing that skill level as a Masters player. So I promise if I am full of ****, you'll all find out when I start failing to live up to my promise in 2025. Lol.
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