From Monday to Saturday I only played 1 MTT(a freeroll for people who were still in ECOOP event #3 when the server went down) and ended up getting 11th. After that Molly and I went to Montreal for a few days just to hangout and see the city since its definitely one of the cooler cities in Canada, pretty close to Ottawa and neither of us had been since we were kids. We got a foot of snow the first day there but other than that it was pretty cool. The city was really easy to get around on foot, the hotel was really nice(pretty crazy how different a $200 a night hotel is in Canada versus in a major European city) and I managed to get my Christmas shopping done. We went to the restaurant toque one night, which was definitely one of the best meals I've ever had and not that unreasonably priced all things considered. Their like "specialty" is this 7 course meals which was definitely too much for her to eat so I ended up having about 9-10 courses and a stomach ache but it was definitely worth it. Not gonna go into too much detail, but Montreal was fun.

We came back to play Sunday and after feeling so good about last Sunday I really felt motivated for this Sunday and decided to play quite a few more tournaments than I normally would since I was so comfortable 16 tabling. Unfortunately(or fortunately) I wasn't really losing out of any tournaments and between the hours of 4 and 6 I usually had 17-19 tables going(when I really shouldn't play more than 16 under optimal conditions... probably even less considering I had the Carbon Major which isn't that resizable and the betfair major which also has a bad interface). I managed to somehow do minimal timing out, but I definitely was auto-piloting more during this phase than I'd have normally liked. In spite of this, I made deep runs in 6 fairly major tournaments and had a fairly profitable Sunday(23k in cashes across 10k in buyins). For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to play some of the huge field 26 FO's on FTP and had trouble losing them early(I mostly played them since the structures are so fast that by the time where lots of tournaments have started, I should probably be out, or semi-deep in a super soft tourney). Anyways, in the big one with 16k runners, I ended up coming like 103rd. I also made deep runs in the 100k euro guarantee on Boss(45th) and the 250k on Ongame(about 70th) before the really deep runs started. I was accumulating huge stacks in the 109 cubed turbo on Stars as well as the 250k guarantee on Ipoker, and was something like 1/30 with 3 times average and 4/22 or something like that. In Stars I kept running insanely good and at one point had 5x avg with 26 left(one of the most epic chipleads I've ever had), and in the Ipoker one I went card dead for a while. Going into the final table on Stars I was 1/9 with about double 2nd place and was like 8th/12 in Ipoker. I got it in KK v AJs on Ipoker and lost that to finish 12th(kinda disappointing since it was the biggest tourney I got in + thats one of the sites I haven't really made money on, so getting in the black there would cure up some of my insecurities) and then kept running hot at the final table of the 109 rebuy turbo until I was 1st/4. I lost one pot where I limped AA in the SB against LXIXME who I thought would shove pretty light like 20BB deep and ended up getting a QJT8T board with a 3flush where I lost like 6BB before folding, and then ran AQ into AK bvb like 16BB deep and then ran K7o into AT 3handed to bust 3rd for 19k. After that tournaments slowed down for a while before I was down to 1 table(the Mulligan) and I ran good for about 4 hours in that before finally losing a 40/60 and 2 flips to finish 19th.

I was definitely pretty happy with my play today, not as good as the previous Sunday but I felt like I was focusing a lot better at analyzing the dynamic and trying to take good notes, and adapt well to my opponents etc. I realized after the whole 19-table debacle that I need to have more method to selecting my Sunday tournaments. I usually will probably play between 45 and 60 tournaments on a Sunday but there are probably about 80-100 reasonably candidates for tournaments worth playing depending hours, screen space, how much I want to multi-table, other dynamics(ie. durinng major live series, the tougher online tournaments will get softer) and decided I'm going to make a spreadsheet for Sundays and weekdays where I list them all as well as a bunch of info about each tourney and then attempt to assess which one is the better alternative under certain situations so that I don't have to make the judgement call when 16 tabling.

Not too much new besides that, I'm heading home for the holidays in a couple days and am excited to see my family as well as friends who I haven't seen in a little while, I'll probably still have time for some poker, but I'm guessing once I get back home my volume will probably shrink a bit until PCA where I currently plan on grinding a ton and getting the year off to a good start.