Week 2:
My final table futility in $4.40s came to an end on the 8th of January as I took one down for a nice score. Previously I had never finished better than sixth place in a handful of tries at the FT. Usually because of stupid plays like shoving medium pocket pairs from EP and losing coinflips or running into an overpair. This time however, I didn't force anything unnecessary and just waited for good situations. The table was set up perfectly for me with small to medium stacked nits to the left of me for blind stealing and loose big stack players to the right of me for position plays. I was never lower than fourth place in chips after we got down to around 20 players, and I never ended up in a situation where I was dominated. I largely attribute my good play in this tournament to learning PLO the previous couple of days. It put me back in the frame of mind where I was continually observing the play of my opponents and trying to figure out their likely holdings and how to bet them out of hands or trap them. I had great reads on every single player at the FT and played against them accordingly. Also going from PLO back to NLHE made me much less afraid of people hitting their draws, which enabled me to ratchet up the aggression factor.

During the middle of the week I won a couple buyins at $10PLO and failed to cash in two $5 SNGs. Every once in a while I go back and play a couple out of sheer boredom and quickly remember how much I hate them. I also failed to cash in a handful of $4.40s. On Saturday I only had time for about a 45 minute session of $50NL. But it was one of those magical runs where everything hits and you get paid off. I managed to win around $120 for less than an hour's worth of work! Overall this was easily my most profitable week ever. I hit Silverstar with half the month to go.

BR: $1310