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by Adanthar on 07/02/08
My final 2 prelims turned out to be a standard 0 for 2 - I won 1 hand in one of them and 0 for'd the other. (When you 3 bet ~5 times in limit and wind up flopping/turning 2 pairs (1 top, 1 middle), neither of which are good at showdown, you're not gonna get anywhere in a donkament.)On the other hand, in the last 2 days, I *did* meet about a thousand people I badly needed to meet, and a couple of those are going to result in what I feel is a solid opportunity down the road. Poker is such a small world that almost everybody who's anybody is in the middle of the Strip right now, so there are a lot of different parties, constant networking, and everyone's collaborating on something or other. With the amount of money behind the scenes of this game, it shouldn't be a surprise, but I do feel extremely lucky to be in the position I am right now.
With that said, it's not all a total loss poker-wise, either. As I said earlier, I'm switching games to PLO/razz as a way of temporarily unstressing from donkaments (where, frankly, running bad is getting old). All of my PLO games so far have been on Cake so I don't have graphs, but in the last 2 weeks, I'm up 2K at midstakes PLO and 3K in midstakes/HU razz in less than 3 thousand hands (and about 25 HU SNG's), mostly due to good game selection but definitely having improved in both. At this point, all signs point to me playing them full time - especially since, due to being at the Rio constantly, I'm only playing for an hour or two a night right now and on only a couple of tables at a time. Once I'm back home, I can do way better than that.
Or, I could just FT the ME and spend the next four months getting coached by CTS or something.
