Welcome to April

Well so far this year has been pretty much a fail. I am running a ton under expectation and to compound things even further I have been such a volume fish! April is my month to turn it around and start grinding again... Even though it has also not started well :p I'm positive I can find my feet and start winning at my true expectation again, it is just going to take a lot more grinding and a LOT more focus!

Last week I had a nice deep run in the 750k gtd on FTP, but unfortunately finished 23rd... I cannot complain because I won a ton of flips and 60/40s to even get that deep, to go with a couple of big pots with around 100-200 players left that i lost with AJ
I was however impressed by the structure of the 750k on FTP as i felt that it allowed the better players to have a bigger edge as we got deeper. Admittedly I was never in that position because my stack never really got up over 35BBs in the lategame, but there were definately some much deeper stacks as we got deeper which is how it should be when you are playing for that kind of money.

I'm not going to dwell on the "so close yet so far" though. What's done is done and I guess that is one thing I have learnt in time. MTT's are so brutal that you have to try to push things out of your mind once they are done (in poker in general). I am not saying that we shouldn't review our play and look at our mistakes critically, because this is something I believe is necessary to be successful. But more that when we take sick beats or have made an error that we know and can acknowledge may have cost us a lot of money, it is often best to move on and not dwell for too long. Sure, it is frustrating to go deep in MTT's and play for 10 hours only to walk away with 5 BI's, but if you can't handle that then I guess I would suggest you didn't play any MTT's.

In other news, i'm beginning to dabble in some PLO. Nothing to serious at the moment but I believe with action getting consistently slower in HUSNG's it's useful to have another form of poker I can play when action is slow. HUNL cash games are a good option for me, but it is equally as hard, if not harder to get a decent session out of anyone there. PLO seems to be the action game at the moment so I am really trying to learn the game a bit more and particularly short handed play.

Anyways... Happy Easter to everyone!!! Hope the Easter bunny is good to you all and I will hopefully be bringing some more successful blog entries soon!!!

GL in your games!

Matt