Well, WCOOP didn't go so great for me as a backer, though that wasn't exactly a shock to me as my stable is full of spewy lags who destroy weak fields, but can sometimes tend to lack the nuance necessary to go coast to coast in well-structured marathons containing many more genuinely good opponents than the daily tournaments ever will.

While the best poker players are obviously/ideally able to adapt their play to whatever type of game they are in, realistically most guys who play 40 hours a week of poorly structured MTTs vs weak opposition are just going to habitually and naturally (even unconsciously) be too aggressive too often in well structured tournaments containing a wider range of opponents; just as guys who only ever play deep structured tournaments or cash-games have all sorts of terrible habits to start off with in turbo flipaments.

I was cringing the whole time to be honest, but as soon as it ended and all the good regs flew off to Europe to play live, or back to the US to see family after a month on whatever island paradise, or went back to grinding cash and lolling at donkaments, I was excited again and it seems like my guys win a couple of tourneys every day at the moment which is pretty sweet to wake up to every morning.

I've been playing live a lot in the big game here which has been going quite well too - it's been a great month so far.

I'm jealous of everyone over in Cannes at the moment though. I want to do a run of EPTs so bad, I have for years, definitely have to do it next year I think.

I've also been grinding some small headsup PLO to practice it and enjoying it a bunch.

I busted my opponents account yesterday for the first time, $687.50 at .5/1 I think it was, good times

It's pretty insane how huge your edge is vs fish in headsup PLO, makes you feel like such a boss; I'm dead money vs tight and trappy regs though - I spew it off sooo hard.

Have enjoyed the first couple episodes of that new show 'Homeland', starring Damian Lewis (Dick Winters from Band of Brothers) as an American marine who was held captive in Iraq and may have been turned, and Claire Danes as the obsessive CIA agent running secret surveillance on him and trying to unearth the truth.

Hopefully it doesn't go to shit like The Killing did, as I do enjoy watching some of these well-made non-HBO shows for a change - less visceral, intense, and demanding of the viewer, but still intelligent TV.

That's not any kind of knock on HBO at all as their brand of TV pretty much single-handedly shifted my attitude towards television from complete indifference to borderline obsession, but it's nice to see intelligent TV writing start to flow outward towards the slightly more mainstream (kind of like how with a movie like Inception, whether or not you thought it was mind-blowing, you can surely agree that it is a great thing to see massive, big-business blockbusters made with that kind of ambition and respect for the viewer's intelligence).

But seriously, how good were Breaking Bad and CYE this season, and after a lacklustre first episode Dexter looks like it is going to be decent now too. & Community & Parks and Rec #showsweareallwatchingnowsurely