I have been in Sydney since last Tuesday night, the first leg of my three week holiday spanning the APPT Grand Final and then a short Extortion tour in Melbourne/Adelaide.

There has been a big PLO game running, it starts as 25/25/50 uncapped but often morphs into 25/25/50/100 or 50/100/200 (or when it gets 3 handed, 50/100/300).

I've run hot so far and am up about $170k.

It's been insanely epic, I have played through til 10am three of the nights (aka until none of the fish have any money left).

Shorthanded PLO is a beautiful game, though really I am barely competent and mostly getting paid for already having money if you get what I mean.

The tournaments went terribly, I never caught a break in any of them, meh.

Holdem sucks!

I've had a weird couple of weeks, I was offered a place on Poker Stars 'Team Online' for next year, a 30 man squad they are bringing in of pseudo red-pros.

It was obviously pretty tempting to take the deal but I am determined to change my life next year and essentially committing to getting paid to go for Supernova Elite would be a pretty massive backwards step in that regard.

Strange the way life works sometimes, sponsorship was something I wanted and hoped for most of the past year or so, and then just as I moved on from that an opportunity presented itself.

Felt a lot like the devil on my shoulder, or 'just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."

Butnahhhhhh, it just wasn't the right decision for me at this point in my life.

I got an early offer for Psychology at RMIT which was my second preference, so I know for sure now I'll at least be able to do that next year - but hopefully I'll get in to Uni of Melb when the main round of offers go out.

Am applying to rent a house in Fitzroy North with two friends over the next few days as well, so things are moving forward nicely!