Hey, the Portugal leg of the trip may have been pretty profitable or slightly unprofitable depending on how tomorrow goes. I busted the main event faster than I had busted a big tournament in quite some time. I lost a big pot to get down to 40% of starting stack in the first 30 minutes and then 2 hours later busted to deep. I also played 4 side events and although I lasted a while in all of them, didn't cash any. My closest call was the 300 euro turbo where I went from 2nd/9 to busting 9th when 8 paid, but it was small enough where winning would have but me just about even off of tournaments from this leg of the trip.

That said, other aspects of this leg of the trip have been profitable. I played some live cash and made about 1600 euros, bought 10% of a guy whose at the final table of the main, and crushed at degen propbetting.

I stayed with Ricky "TT_fold" Fohrenbach who seems to love 0-ev gambling and hate people who try getting an edge at 0-ev gambling(such as playing chinese) so we ended up booking a lot of bets that were essentially just obscure coinflips. We were betting on birth months of people, amounts of bills at restaurants as well as more conventional bets like last longers, and betting flop colors. Eventually we came across an excellent gambling game.

In our hotel the garbage cans have 4 color-coded quadrants, for like waste, metal, glass and paper or something like that. We thought it would be cool to throw coins from across the room and if they land in the garbage can, you win money. Ricky thought that involved far too much skill so we altered it to say that we each select a quadrant, constantly rotate the can, and whoever's quadrant the coin lands in wins money from all other players involved. To add to things we also placed some side bets involving how many people would sink when it came their turn(throwing one coin each quickly became too tame for us).

The second night we played with Mr.BigQueso and Shaun Deeb(hours after Shaun quit tournaments). Shaun ran worse than we thought was possible and at one point all of our quadrants had 10-15 coins in and his had 2. We then decided to up the variance by taking a handful of coins and throwing them all at once, this brought on some swings since they all follow similar paths and are far less evenly distributed. We then decided to finish the night, everyone would take a turn blindfolding themselves and dropping a whole handful of coins from right above the bin while someone else spins the bin- JustLuck took videos, dunno if they'll find their way online anytime. Anyways, Deeb ran even worse here and ended the came down enough that all 3 of us were sizable winners.

Anyways, Portugal has been a pretty fun few days of degeneracy but I'm definitely looking forward to getting back home to Waterloo and Ottawa, getting on a more reasonable schedule(woke up at 1130pm today) and spending some time not playing live poker until the new year. The trip has been pretty fun and fairly profitable, I'm excited about getting off the flight to Toronto and finding out what place my sweat got.

Alright, thats it for now, part 2 of my video series came out btw if anyone wants to check that out