Well it's been 4 months and I've been playing a lot of poker lately so it seemed like a good time to write a bit of an update.

I'm settled in Melbourne and really enjoying it - uni is going really well (88% of the people doing my course are female!) and for most of the year I haven't been playing much online poker at all.

I play fairly high stakes poker live twice a week or so, Crown Casino is in the city and a short walk from my university so I walk down after class when there's a game on (usually either 25/25/50 PLO or 25/50/100 NLHE).

I've run pretty poorly overall, and have lost a lot of big pots in memorably sickening ways the last few months but I think I'm roughly breaking even for the year.

I've been buying pieces/staking more than usual too, but so far all my horses are losing.

I started really missing donkaments recently and I'm 3/4 through the semester at uni and getting good grades, so I handed in a couple of things early so as to be able to essentially take three weeks off - one week to practice for SCOOP and then two weeks for SCOOP.

The practice week went poorly but seemed to do the trick, as I got my eye in and the day before SCOOP started I finally won a tournament, a $55 cubed for $5k or so.

Since then I have gone on a huge tear, and had winning days nearly every day this week - I won the $1002R1A two days in a row, won the $40k gtd, chopped the UB 1K for 32k, got 4th in Party Highroller last week and 2nd this week (8k/18k), and got 12th in the 1500r PLO (13k).

Paid a lot in entry fees too obviously but I'm still up quite a lot, and I won a bunch live the last two times I played (though I was coming off a big live downswing).

Another whole week of SCOOP to go and though I'm exhausted my game is really sharp at the moment and I'm ready to give it a good shake.

It's gonna be hard to detach after the week is over, but I've been much happier this year spending my time going to uni and hanging out with my girlfriend... my plan for the rest of the year is to keep doing what I'm doing but also play most Sundays online and keep playing live after class as it doesn't disrupt my schedule too much.

I'll play a bit of PLO cash online too but that's more of a when I feel like it, 10k hands a month type thing.

So yeah, I'm still alive and all is going well