Over the past year, he’s put in a lot of work growing his communities on both YouTube and Twitch and as a result, hasn’t been playing as much as he’d like. This week’s huge score certainly came at a good time for Gutierrez. It would be like choosing a favourite child.” I couldn’t tell you which means more to me. It was still kind of short-handed but the buy-in was bigger. “I think my WCOOP win was the result of the work I’d put in playing cash games, whereas this SCOOP win was different. “It’s extremely fun playing those events against the best players,” he says.
Not surprising for a guy who for years cut his teeth in high stakes online 6-Max cash games, Gutierrez loves short-handed tournaments. He won his first WCOOP title back in 2018 in a $2,100 4-Max NLHE event, banking $124,123. I didn’t find the transition too difficult as I’d been playing a very high level in cash games.” But for me, instead of dropping down in stakes, I just studied a lot and began playing $1Ks right away.
But Gutierrez was already well versed in the art of MTTs, having played for years at the beginning of his career. Some high stakes cash game players who switch to streaming tournaments, such as PokerStars Ambassador Lex Veldhuis, drop down in stakes as they master tournament strategy.
