Two weeks ago, a thread emerged in the Poker Community forum entitled, “Shaniac deserves more attention!” Although we truncated the number of exclamation points used in the title of the thread from four to one, the series of posts were about a memorable day for Shane shaniac Schleger (pictured), who won four online poker Turbo and Hyper-Turbo tournaments for $20,000 total in a 24-hour span.

June 23rd was the date it all started. It was then that Schleger won the $51 No Limit Hold’em Hyper-Turbo for $2,800. Then, it was onto another win, this time in the $109 No Limit Hold’em Turbo for $3,800. As if those two wins weren’t enough, Schleger won the $215 No Limit Hold’em Turbo 2X Chance for $7,500 and the $82 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Hyper-Turbo for $7,000. All four tournaments were on PokerStars.

On June 26th, Schleger finished fifth in the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $20,000. “It was a much needed four-day upswing and really it was kind of a blur. I tried to play well and obviously ran really good. I needed to get out of Vegas and have a little session like that to recover from the disastrous SCOOP month and a lousy-ish WSOP.”

Schleger headed south of the border to a town in Mexico an hour away from San Diego. The longtime PocketFives member expressed, “I just needed to get back into my comfort zone, online MTTs.” Despite his success, Schleger remained extremely modest, telling PocketFives that despite a four-tournament run and forum thread in his honor, “In reality, it’s just a heater. We’ve seen way sicker heaters on way larger scales when the games are much tougher.”

The thread received two-dozen posts, half of which came from ranked players on PocketFives. We asked Schleger to respond to his fan club: “The support definitely feels nice, but you can’t let short-term results get to your head in any way. It’s a feeling of relief more than anything because when you are running bad, it can mess with your head and your confidence and you begin to think, ‘What if I never win again?'”

On a similar front, in April, PocketFives brought you an interview with Scott stpauli111Hall (pictured), who trumped the fields of the PokerStars Sunday Supersonic and Bigger $162 for $42,000 apiece. Hall also took down the $50 Rebuy and $200 Rebuy on PokerStars for $24,000 each, all on the same day. Many in the online poker community dubbed the feat the “sickest day ever.”

When we spoke to Schleger, he was in the midst of a spur-of-the-moment trip back to the United States. “I was planning on coming back to the U.S. to see my girlfriend and had a few days of downtime before she came back home. Mostly in the spirit of ‘playing the rush,’ I had a hankering to play the WSOP Ante Only event. It seemed like a good tournament for me.”

Despite his desire to play in the first Ante Only event to grace the WSOP schedule, simplicity wasn’t in the cards: “It took forever to cross the border. I got very little sleep and a later start, so it wasn’t looking good, but I had a friend encourage me to come out and late register. There was one flight I could catch to make it on time, so I did.”

He continued, “Unfortunately, I didn’t make anything heroic of it and busted within 10 hands. That’s the great thing about having a hub in Los Angeles, I guess. It’s just a few hours from online poker in Mexico and a few hours from Vegas.”

To bust from the WSOP tournament, Schleger ran A-J into the Big Slick of John $JMONEY$Racener (pictured). On his overall live poker thought process, Schleger enlightened, “I think the key to live poker is presence of mind, just being in tune and in the moment and not make mistakes. I’m just going to get out there and try to play mistake-free poker, be in a good mindset, and hopefully make a run.”

Finally, Schleger, an American transient, has had to face some tough choices following Black Friday. He portended, “In the post-Black Friday world, it’s a little bit less clear if going to Vegas for the full WSOP grind is my best bet. Online might be where it’s at during the summers.”

Only time will tell. In the meantime, four wins in 24 hours could sway his thought process.