Been travelling for a couple of weeks, in Spain, Marbella with my gf visiting a friend who has started a bar there, and in Miami with my family. Can't remember when I have played as little poker as I did during the trips, and trying to get back to the grind now. I played some more 100/200 and 200/400 CAP PLO on fulltilt a few days before the trip, and here and there during it. Have really had a rough run there, EV-wise and I think cooler-wise aswell. The variance in PLO can just be so sick, probably shouldn't play that big, but it's not easy staying away when the same fish you are after at a 25/50 game decides to jump into the nosebleed game. I'm very happy with my table selection for those stakes, don't think I've played a single full orbit after the player I consider alot weaker has left, which most of you know can occaisonally be REALLY tough if you are down and you have to go down to grind 10x times smaller games after that. Many people don't wanna take shots to that big games at all I can sort of understand that decision, but if we look rationally at things, I'm still young and will prolly be able to grind for many years to come, it is not that terrible if I lose a big part of my bankroll. If I see a game I consider myself to have a descent edge in, it would actully be a bad career decision not to take a shot, aslong as I save enough of money to grind the lower stakes if it doesn't go well. I'm telling you, once I get the Jeans-run going at nosebleeds I'm gonna have the sickest year! Like Loco times 3. Thankfully I'm up so much from 25/50 and lower stakes I'm still comfortably up this year, and the positive side it's fulltilt dollars so less taxes to pay :)

Leaving for EPT Tallinn day after tomorrow, an ept win would definitely make things easier.. ;) and still planning on this year's London trip, there is enough tourneys for a whole month, but that's too much, maybe picking WSOPE+EPT, but even that is over 2 weeks.. We'll see..

I'm gonna work on my NLHE game a bit more now, majority of big live MTTs are nlhe. Have still like played tourneys every now and then on sunday, and a few times short sessions of 5/10 or 10/20, but I do feel rusty in some spots. It's been like 2 years since I owned NLHE cash games so I'm almost a dinosaur by now. Gonna be looking to grind some 5/10ish range NLHE in the near future.

Here is one hand at the beginning of yesterdays FTOPS, I owned this one guy pretty badly. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5610234

 

Anyways, gl at the tables!