I had a fun weekend, mate came to visit for new house and played a fair few games. Not a big fan of Sundays at the stakes I play but I made a day 2 on Winamax and had a Sunday Special ticket for .fr so played.

I played a small session Friday, won a small Winamax MTT for a few hundred yoyos and came 9th in the $11r 40k for $700ish after blinding down a lot in the final 2 tables and shoving 6 bigs UTG with A5s - big blind had A7s and a JJ7 flop wasn't a good sight. It asn't the funniest experience as I busted at like 6am after 1 tabling for 4 hours feeling ill but it still put me b/e for the day and I didn't feel tilted at all, maybe a little bit whiny, but my attitude towards beats over the last few months had got much worse and I'm really happy that I felt I dealt with it well by just moving on instantly.

I played another small session on Saturday and lost a bit, then a big session on Sunday which was saved by a 5th on Winamax for €1.1k. I was a bit unhappy to not do better with 4.5k for first and a traditionally soft as hell Winamax but got coolered really hard by the big stack and was happy to just stay at a big-ish final table for a while after continually finishing 9th-15th in all my other big deep runs the last couple of weeks. Winamax structures are also fairly crapshotty, average was 20bb and there were always a couple of shortstacks.

This week is going to be busy and there's going to be less time for poker, lots of life stuff to sort out! I'll see how it goes, might put in a session on Thursday or Friday then I'm going to the Pokerstars VIP party on Saturday (lol), mainly because I can get a lift and there's a free bar. Staying the night in London on Saturday night in a cheap hotel then back on Sunday to grind - going to be a big Sunday as I'm playing a $215 and a €100 so I'm pretty excited I did a 3 hour hand review with one of my horses today (I run a tiny stable for some micro horses to try and improve my coaching and help them improve faster) and it was good to have to think about hands. I'm not doing enough studying at the moment so I'll try to watch at least a couple of training videos this week.

I'm really happy to be back on my PC, I only had a shitty £400 laptop for about the last year which could just about do 3 sites without a HUD whereas my PC seems happy-ish with 4 sites and a HUD. I need a longer VGA cable to get my 2nd monitor going again, it's just an old 20" but frees up a lot of space. I'm planning on upgrading from 4GB to 8GB as HEM eats memory and I'd like an SSD at some point but I'll only buy them out of poker winnings so we'll see when that happens!