During the month of October, Chris DJ PattiecakeLovett (pictured) final tabled the $500 buy-in PokerStars Sunday 500twice. Yes, not once, but twice did Lovett make his way to the final table of the challenging Sunday Major under the screen name run dat game and came away with about $50,000 in cash to show for it. Lovett can be found at #567 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankingsand finished second in the PokerStars Big $109for $13,000 in October as well. We sat down with him to recap his monumental stanza.

PocketFives.com: Thanks for joining us. Talk about final tabling the Sunday 500 twice in October. That has to be quite rewarding for you.

Chris Lovett: I was really happy with my result in the second one. I came into the final table in fifth place, but there were two really big stacks and the rest of us were pretty close. The other players aside from dean23price were making lots of ICM mistakes and I made a lot of super nitty moves that I had never done before.

PocketFives.com: Have you been in the zone or to what do you attribute your success?

Chris Lovett: I played an interesting schedule that let me focus more on the Sunday 500. Usually, I just load up everything all day, but that Sunday, I skipped a lot of $20 to $100 buy-in tournaments and instead played a lot of $35 180-mans, which have always been my favorite game. I can autopilot those pretty effectively and so can have time to think about tougher hands in the 500. The Big $109 was fun too. I mostly just played tight and moved up the pay ladder because I had good loose players to my left.

PocketFives.com: Can you talk about dean23price’s play down the stretch of the October 23rd running of the PokerStars Sunday 500? How did the U.K. poker player manage to come away with the win?

Chris Lovett: He played very well at the final table and was punishing people with his ICM advantage. He played a level above everyone before the final table and made it seem like he was playing against low-stakes fish. He had no fear of 3betting, 4betting, or 5betting pre-flop and the result was him entering the final table with a huge chance of winning.

PocketFives.com: Can you tell us how you got started in poker?

Chris Lovett: In high school, we had home games and one time we had a big two-table tournament. My friend ended up winning it and was then considered the best player in town, someone you wouldn’t want to play a pot with. I bet him $50 that I could do better than he could in the Full Tilt 900-man freeroll over the summer and people thought I was insane. $50 was huge and he was the best player in town.

Within a few days, he got sixth in it. Less than a week later, I won it for $8, so he sent me $50 online. After that, I made a lot of money, but always lost most of it back by virtue of having no concept of bankroll management. I quit my job without notice three times and got rehired twice. Since the third time, I’ve just been grinding.

I have probably won every year between now and then. I tried going to college and playing poker, but couldn’t juggle the two. Since I made the decision to focus on poker, everything is coming up milhouse.

Visit PokerStarsfor this weekend’s running of the Sunday 500.