For the last 6 days I have been moving house and building furniture, so I haven't played much poker except for a few of the LEOCOP tournaments.

They have mostly been really depressing; here are the results so far:

LEOCOP Sunday Opening Tournament, $390, 171/440, no prize

LEOCOP $50 Re-Buy, $155, 143/417, no prize

LEOCOP DADDY 1, $330, 120/283, no prize

LEOCOP Beat the Team, $42, 341/498, no prize

LEOCOP DADDY 2, $330, 16/281, $849

LEOCOP PL Championship, $420, 125/167, no prize

I've spent $1,804 including satellites and won $849. BUT, I do have $2000 worth of entries still to play at no further cost, and I think I'll feel much happy playing the heads-up and 6-max than all the soul-destroying 10 seat games. At least they now have antes in all games keeping the average stacks a bit deeper in relation to the blinds.

In the Daddy 2 I lost with AA to AKs for 9% of the chips in play (would have taken me to 12%) when there were still 20 players left, and then I lost the rest with AK vs 99. In the previous Daddy I lost with AKo vs AKs in similar but smaller-scale circumstances. All the others were card dead waiting for a double up and then failing to win at showdown once I got it in. I realised I had one leak of opening up too much in position just after getting a decent stack - just going crazy for antes once I think I can afford it, so now I have a rule that I cannot open anything I wouldn't raise in the same position in a 6max cash game.

I think its unfortunate I had to miss the O8 and PLO, because I bet these were the softest fields around in a $300+ tourney.

At least I have made 1 small entry onto the LEOCOP leaderboard, I felt like the extra 150 points may be significant in addition to 1 good result in the next two events.

I now have a second bedroom/office, and am no longer next to a main road, so hopefully this setting should lead to much more focused poker in the run-up to Christmas.

I am trying to decide whether to add sky HD to the new flat, so I might use that as an incentive/reward for a good place in this weekend's tournaments.