After my last blog entry I was headed to Lonodn for WSOPE and EPT. We got there a few days before WSOPE and had planned to grind a ton online during this trip, but that's always easier said than done when traveling if not because of the cool stuff going on in the areas you visit, the internet being terrible. So I mostly just hung out around London and played the live events as well as some live cash. The former was fun and the latter two not so much. In WSOPE I got sucked out on for two big pots which was really disappointing considering the structure was incredibly good.

In the EPT I lost a big flip early on day one which was whatever, EPT structures are pretty bad so winning pots like that early are crucial. There was a funny pot in EPT London though where someone limped, John Phan accidentally minraised having intended to limp behind with 8 BB's, the button 3bet, the limper flatted, John Phan stuck it in and although the button couldn't technically isolate he just insta jams and the limper insta calls. And the look on the dealers face was like, 'eh, I guess everyone wants to be all-in so whatever'. For those interested, the limper had JJ, John Phan had Q8hh, the button had 88 and the board ran out QxTh7h5x8x.

I ended up playing the EPT high roller event after selling off a good % of myself and got KK to AA in level one in a spot where there was no avoiding it for a lot of my chips, then shoved K7s into Juanda's BB from the SB which was marginal but imo optimal. He tanked for a minute and a half or so before calling with AJs and out I went. After London was over I went back to the US for a few days before heading out to Niagara for the WPT.

Niagara was my first ever WPT and I was pretty impressed with how the tournament was run. The structure was better than EPT's and the staff was much better, I can't imagine hands like the aforementioned one would occur here. I played really well on day 1 and built up a big stack but got crushed quick on day two getting in a bunch of really stupid unavoidable spots.

After Niagara me and 6 friends took a limo to turning stone casino in upstate new york for the 5k HPT(heartland poker tour) event. The structure for this was pretty awesome but unfortunately there were only 49 runners. I actually think I ran pretty bad throughout the tournament but the structure was good enough that I was able to chip up and conserve an above average stack for most of the tournament until we approached the TV final table bubble where I lost a few too many big pots and entered the TV FT with only 82k at 1500-3k-500 ante with 980k chips in play though I had as many as ~160k at my peak. I ended up busting 5th for ~18k. TV poker is kind of wack though, it's obviously all really glorified and hyped up and kind of tilting but it is what it is and is one of the main reasons poker is so popular right now so I can't really hate on it.

So that sums up the end of my travels thus far as I sit here in a turning stone room waiting to fly home. My plan for the next few months is to put live tournaments aside for a little while and grind online and make a ton of money. I still might play foxwoods in early November, but if I skip that I won't play anything before PCA and maybe EPT Prague. GL everyone.