I've been catching up on my tournament game lately. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, because I want to be able to take shots at live tournaments as opportunities arise.
One of the reasons I didn't get round to learning tournaments earlier was that I rarely play them and my time is limited due to Uni so I just focused on my cash game primarily, but since I'm on holidays I finally got round to reading Tournament Poker for Advanced players by Sklansky. It's a book geared towards players like myself (experienced cash game players trying to learn what adjustments to make in tournaments).
Reading tournament literature was actually kinda eye opening to me as I think I've been a little bit ignorant towards certain tournament situations in the past in terms of pushing small ev edges and thus variance a little bit too hard in an attempt not to be like other people nitting it up trying to make the money. While I'm definetly +ev in the tournaments I participate in, I probably have limited myself ROI wise.
Anyways I'll also definetly take a look at the first two Harrington books before I go to Budapest in March aswell. I must have had them lying around my appartment for almost 4 years now, lol.

This coming week will be a week of hardcore Uni grinding for me. I have to take two exams the following week and I've put myself on a tighter time schedule so I could find time to play them pokers. While this surely makes me a more efficient student, it definetly is intense. But hey I'm still youthful so bring it!

On a side note I took some shots at 10/20 the other day, because the games were pretty good. I had the "jesus seat" 150bb deep, but couldn't really catch a big hand. I ended up winning 90€.
For some reason I feel a lot more comfortable with my bankroll nowadays. I guess being more financially secure and with little responsibilites plays a big roll. I also barely tilt. I used to say I never tilt, but this can never really be the case if your human imo. I just think I tilt far less than most.
I'm sure a lot of people say this, but being able to detatch yourself emotionally from situations is super important.
I used to get the most frustrated when I felt I made a poor decision and never really when my opponents made a poor decision and it lead them to winning the hand. I guess that kinda reaction might come from me playing a lot of sports when I was younger. I would allaways be mad at myself for messing up and never mad at others. I allways took full responsibilty. Which is a good thing to a certain degree, but I think in poker you need to take it one step further and realize that you are putting yourself in a situation where you are going to make mistakes and aknowledge before hand that all you can do is be confident in your decision making and never regret your decisions, but instead constantly learn and reevaluate. I hope that makes sense.
Also check out this post by Comanchie from the Leggo forums: http://www.leggopoker.com/forums/psy...102-page7.html I think this is a pretty cool post on the topic.

Finally I've been watching a lot of the videos on the College Humor channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alw5hs0chj0&feature=fvst . I think this is pretty funny and worth checking out if you haven't seen it already. Fwiw it still made me laugh the second time around.

All the best,

Daniell