The shows were ok.

The promoter kinda ****ed us around a little bit and the turnouts weren't huge, but the kids were very into it and we had a lot of fun in the car and hanging out at the house we stayed at.

A high percentage of the people that saw us cared a lot about seeing us, but it was a bit like, did we really travel this far to play to 50 kids type thing...

I had another couple of days off poker which was good, and I had to fly while the WCOOP Main Event was on which was also good as it didn't get me caught up in the tournament world again (it's a tarp!).

Trying to quit tournaments is seriously like trying to break an addiction. It's quite sickening.

But fortunately lately I have been actually enjoying playing NLHE cash for the first time since the start of the year!

I made a $1KNL video last week, and spent a lot of it talking cynically about how mechanical NL has gotten and how it isn't fun to play anymore, how sometimes it feels like you're just playing a tournament anyway because preflop opening ranges and looking at the players/stacks behind you are so important now...

Then the night after that I did commentary with Greg on a video of me playing HU from a while back, the two of us discussing my lines as I don't have much HU experience.

Between those two video-making experiences I think I had a few revelations about how to approach and how to beat the games at the moment, and since then I have actually enjoyed all of the sessions I have played (and been leading more towards NL than PLO).

It's good to feel my mindset switching back into cashgame mode also.

Instead of looking at the clock and calculating how many hours until tourneys start and deciding whether to stay up all night or not, I just ask myself "Do I feel like playing atm? Or should I go do something else?"

So yeah, gonna go do something else!