I am currently typing this from an airplane on a Delta flight from Detroit to Las Vegas (who knew Delta had wifi?), fresh off a $4300 win playing FTP's new 10-game mix (no, I have no idea how to play badugi or NL 2-7 SD) before the connection was a little too spotty to continue. The internet works fine for all practical purposes though, pretty cool.

The reason I am flying to Vegas is that I am going to be on Poker After Dark! This will be my first televised poker appearance and I am very excited. Lana (CR marketing director) worked very hard to get me on the show and called me Friday afternoon to let me know about it. It totally caught me off guard, especially since I have a big assignment due Tuesday for my architecture class, but I quickly decided that I was in, got an extension on the assignment, and now here I am flying cross country. The game will be 300/600 PLO (maybe with an ante?), 100k min buyin, and the lineup includes Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Phil Galfond, and I think 2 of Patrik Antonius, Sam Farha, and Brandon Adams, although I am not 100% positive. We will be taping tomorrow, and although unfortunately I will not be able to disclose results before the show airs, I will fill you in with the details that I can provide when I know them. I do know that the episodes will air sometime in 2011, although I'm not sure when yet.

I haven't played a ton online lately as I've been doing a bunch of travelling and schoolwork and the games have been fairly dry. The addition of draw games onto FTP looks to be drumming up some action though, and I think I'll be playing more in the coming weeks. I played one 1.5k/3k mix session the other day 3 handed with David Oppenheim and Niki Jedlicka, and was up a bit before I hit a major cold streak and booked an overall loss of 55k (including a 27k win playing 200/400 cap PLO), a result of getting hammered in both PLO (-80k) and O8 (-89k). Despite not playing too much lately, I feel a lot of confidence in my play in the HORSE games, NLH, PLO, and 2-7 TD right now and want to focus much of my poker energy in coming weeks in learning NL 2-7 SD and badugi, since I am most likely a giant fish in both right now and look to be playing them more in the future. I am staying at the Aria tonight, where PAD is now being filmed, and might drop down to Ivey's Room to play some live mix games. I am still waiting on a wire though which I am going to send tomorrow, so unless I can find someone to trade online funds for chips with, I might be stuck trying to run up the 2k cash in my pocket in other games, which could be fun anyway. I also am going to shop for some clothes to wear on the show so I look fresh (aka NOT my FTP avatar shirt, which adds 50 lbs). Anyway, wish me luck and check out part 2 of my high stakes PLO series. GL everyone

Brian H