After turning stone came to an end I chilled out for a little while before flying to macau at the very end of august. surprisingly, a 21 hour trip turned out to be relatively easy with the longest flight being business class. Fwiw, I strongly reccommend anyone who can spend the money on business class to do it for long flights. After arriving in macau on September 2nd I met up with bond18 and we got some traditional chinese food. Later he introduced me to some cool people and we played mini golf at the venetian(2nd biggest building in the world). The course is really awesome that kind of overlooks the city, nonetheless I obviously lost some insignificant amount of money prop betting per hole.

I played day 1c yesterday on the 3rd and didn't play any interesting hands really and was only all in when called once and the guy had no outs. The only hand of interest would be a hand at the 1-2 no ante level where HJ opened who was Terrence Chan(world class limit player, unassigned online) to 500 and I flat AQo in sb w/ 9k effective stacks. It comes KJ8r chk chk. Turn T bringing a fd w/ the 8, I bet 900 into 1200, he makes it 2200. I decide that he's either bluffing, has TT/AQ and wants to stack off, or maybe has JT and is probably raise/folding. Thinking about it later though being a limit player he might make free showdown raises so I think my best line is to call and donk blank rivers. As it was I called and checked a 6o and he snap checked behind and mucked. Oh, well.

I had 22.6k going into day 2 w/ blinds starting at 400-800/100. I missed the first 3 minutes because I forgot my players card in the room which resulted in me missing an orbit or so. When I sat down I lost some chips folding and had to raise/fold KQs utg w/ 23bbs or so. 2 hands later EP opens for the 2nd hand in a row and I have QQ in sb w/ 20bbs, I ship it in, he snaps, and I'm drawing nearly dead to AA when it comes akx.

The high roller event($19,250 USD) starts in 2 days so hopefully I can run good there and hit n run macau before leaving for EPT Barcelona on the 9th. After that tournament has run it's course we'll have two weeks to just chill in Europe before EPT london and WSOPE begin. If anyone is in the same boat holler at me and lemme know what you're up to.

best wishes,
-andrew