Hey guys, been here for 5 days now and am already feeling pretty dirty, loool.

Let's see, where to start.

First, Commerce is not a pretty part of LA. Thus myself and yellowsub have found ourselves not leaving the hotel pretty much ever, save last night where we ate at Matsuhisa (sushi joint in beverly hills) with some friends. The internet is terrible, but the beds are super comfy and the room service is faster than any other hotel (albeit they stop serving at 2am, boo).

Commerce, poker-wise, is gigantic. They have a gigantic room for highstakes action (100+ tables), a separate room for smaller stakes action (even bigger, maybe 150+ tables), and a section for table games. There's no slots or craps. I felt pretty lost/n00b at the beginning when trying to find games and player boards, because it's just an ocean of games available, kinda like WSOP but just cashgames. All the tournament action is in a big room up a fancy flight of spiral stairs.

Much as I'd like to be a live pro, I'm not. I think I've geniunely given up on live deepstack NL cash. The environment usually isnt too friendly, so much tanking and showboating, less hands per hour, and I find myself making more mistakes than I'd be comfortable with for some stupid reason (like not barreling AKo on KJ9dd, turn 4d... because I dont want to get checkraised? uhhhh... crap im bad). So I just don't really have any confidence at bigbet.

Fortunately theres minbet, and it's comforting to know that if there ever came a point where I lost the ability to win at online poker, or computers were banned, I'd have a home at the 20/40 limit cashgames. Guaranteed 3 droolers per table every session I've logged, very friendly environment, more hands per hour, more confidence in my game (hit pair = BET). One could definitely make a solid living just following the tournament trail and playing the live limit games the local casino provides.

I was really hoping there would be some soft mixed games or draw games that would fit my fancy at commerce (what with commerce being heavily degen and asian) but most all of the mixed games have been 200/400 or higher, and the rare 60/120 games I've seen have been filled with competent-looking foes. So that's been a letdown =( I was really hoping to play some 30/60 deuce or badeucy. I guess I'll just have to get to the point where next year I'm comfy playing 200/400.

All in all I've prob played only 10 hours of live cash and dropped maybe 1k, pretty bleh.

That said I've been putting a ton of hours into live donkaments, with some success. I finished 3rd in the $1kr 6m PLO (once again boosting my PLO 6m donkament resume) albeit only 40 runners so not that much profit. Bricked everything else which means a small profit overall on account of selling action.

My super-army for Sunday proved very profitable, albeit not in the way I expected. One of the friends I was buying action from said he was playing a live $350 tournament in Iowa (WSOP Circuit) the Saturday before, and would I like to buy action on that aswell? Sure, I said. He ended up chopping for 28k, ship 9k to me! Huzzah! I knew buying lotto tickets on friends in tournaments would eventually make me money.

So between the action buying, the PLO donkament mini-score, and some profitable 8game shottaking, I'm having a pretty good week here at Commerce. That said I certainly would like to get back to SD as soon as possible, since it's pretty clear I'm not a live grinder and the idea of grinding internet poker in between sessions of Anthony Bourdain and Call of Duty (with eating Pho and Chipotle mixed in) is very appealing.

All for now!