Ok dublin was interesting. Had a very good time there, despite running like absolute **** in all the tournaments I played. Played like 15 NLHE tournaments, and didn't come anywhere close to the money in any of them. Played fairly well overall I believe. Mincashed a omaha turbo in the end, which felt like a bit of a troll haha. I don't know much about PLO tournaments, but I could tell the level of play was just terrible. People 3 barreling QQ78 on Q94QA for value (???) and me crycalling with 99xx etc Got short towards the bubble, which put me in a few spots where I had absolutely no idea. Eventually called my 4.5bb off in the bb vs an utg shortstack with 89t5 single suited who had aat7 and board ran out t9xax
Oh well, was happy I mincashed at least one tournament.
When it was all over, as we went to back the appartment the last night, it was weird for me. I had so much confidence going in, and I just kept bricking tournament after tournament, meanwhile all the other guys were having decent scores/were up a decent amount. Don't get me wrong, I was happy for them and I wanted them to be succesful, but yeah very mixed feelings bc I feel like there is no one - and it's perhaps not even close -who invests as much time to studying and playing poker as me (from our group), and then I am the one who was down heaps, while all the others were up at least 4 figures. This combined with my results online for the past couple of years left me a bit sad. Our group actually had a sick week with a 2x 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th 5 final tables total on an avg of maybe 10-12 mutually played tournaments. I believe we were up 5 figures, despite me losing chuncks. Oh well, **** happens. Will definitely be back next year there, since it's by far the most enjoyable series of the year. Really well organized, and 6max is just so much more fun wrt live poker.
Played a small online session on monday with no results worth mentioning and studied a lot yesterday. School has started as well this week, but haven't visited a lecture yet, but plan on doing so starting from next week. Wrt poker, I guess I'm gonna try to keep playing 3/4 days a week for now. Games should be super soft, bc everyone is oi after WCOOP anyway. In the meanwhile, there is not much else I can do besides grinding and working hard.