The last 2 weeks have been mental! Absolutely mental mental crazy. I travelled to Gibraltar to represent bitB with a very exciting new business adventure, we find out some news today about funding, but even if we don't get it there should be very easy to get as new business model we have made is very lucrative. I was supposed to be grinding every day for the challenge we had in bitB, basically hue competitive leaderboard.
I started off with a bunch of big FTs and runs, but then had to leave to Gibraltar, do lots of presentations, meetings etc and fell out of sync, because I was meeting people during business hours my sleeping clock was that of a muggle and thus struggled to grind when I came back. I spent every day studying tonnes and working on lots of different areas of the game.
I played 2-3 tables on Friday night, getting 2nd in a tournament for $35k and 4th in another for $5k, probably punted the 3rd
Was looking forward to playing today so so much, woke up at 8am unfortunately which is really the worst thing that can happen on a Sunday. Decided to just be up early with the family, went for drive in new car we bought last week (I need to get license ASAP!) ((don't worry i wasn't driving!)) then went for Sunday roast, watched the Newcastle game then the Spurs game, it got to 6pm and I should start grinding, but took approach that it will be super long day so best to just get a power nap in. I slept for an hour and then was ready to go.
Throughout the whole session I listened to 80 seconds of a Harry Styles song on random repeat mixed with silence was a little bit strange haha. Ended up having stacks all over the place, I was deep in the $1k and I was replying to a horse on discord with like 14 left and crazy guy opened and I thought I had Aces, I wrote back on discord and in that time worked out flatting was the highest ev play here, I flat and then see I have AK which is not the hand i wanted to flat with! End up losing a little in the hand, but could have been pivotal spot.
Ended up coming 9th in the $1k for $7k, had some other runs s530, party main, hotter 215 and few other good runs but managed to close the session out winning the Party HR for $208k.
Feels really nice to run good, played well, but of course to win any tournament, even a 1 table SNG you gotta run better than the others.
I have loved playing these series so much, the big prize pools, competition is just really motivating for me. I went for dinner with a good friend who is just transitioning out of poker, he basically hates the game and doesn't mentally stimulate him anymore, I've gone through some ups and downs with poker over the last 10 years, but before this weekend (and obviously still) I haven't loved poker as much as I do currently.
I feel like theres something mentally that I'm not allowing to get into my conscious mind. After the 3 big wins in Vegas last year the end of 2017 was kinda lined up to go travel, huge Macau tournaments, huge Montenegro HR series, big PartyPoker series in Russia, PokerMasters in Vegas, other Vegas HR series like 5 diamond, people probably think looking at hendon mob that I just bricked everything which is kinda normal, but for some reason I just didn't go, I still don't really know why I didn't go, why I'm not in Australia now, why I didn't go to PCA. I know that live poker is way better suited to me than online and I'm a lot more competent there, I know I can sell action to any of these tournaments to different investors and getting there/hotels/flights etc isn't problem, but for some reason I basically didn't let myself even think about going. Anybody have any reason they think this could be? I'm obviously busy with bitB and really enjoy that responsibility and not being able to just be on the road and actually have roles and responsibilities, but it feels like something is very odd that I wouldn't chase the run after the summer heater.
I'm just checking my diary and I actually went to 3 stops after Vegas
Barcelona - Deep run in the biggest main event of the year, big controversy on feature table
GUKPT Grand Finale - Made the final table
Prague - 3rd for $75k
So it has nothing to do with running bad, if anything every stop I went to after Vegas I ran over expectation. Maybe its something from Barcelona and the whole angleshoot thing that I just want to stay a little more out of the live limelight, I really don't know, I think I've probably tried to stay away from even thinking about it, but having Rozvadov coming up in a couple of days, there is amazing schedule and I didn't even book flights yet and lying in bed today I though hmm why haven't I done that? Actually why aren't I in Australia? Why didn't I go to PCA? Why didn't i go to Party Punta Cana etc.
Something strange
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