So after Vilamoura I went directly to Cannes for a week for the Partouche Poker Tour (main event was a‚¬8,500).
I busted the main event on the last level of a very long day with A6cc vs AJo on J75cc after having a really rough day where I wasn't really able to accumulate any chips and had QQ vs AA and QQ vs KK that both made sure I was never above avg. The tourney was really soft and the structure was amazing as well so I was a bit sad I wasn't able to make day 2 but that's just how it goes sometimes. Cannes is a beautiful city though and with the amazing weather I pretty much just spent the entire week walking around the city, laying on the beach, eating at nice restaurants and catching up with friends I hadn't seen in a long time. As I am sure some of you are aware I also played in a 2ka‚¬ sideevent and was planning on playing the 3ka‚¬ heads-up tournament as well. I'm not gonna get too much into it here but I decided to skip the heads-up tournaments due to some questionable rulings from the staff (if you wanna read more about there is a huge thread here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61/mtt-community/cheating-accepted-partouche-poker-tour-868424/).

I have played a bit of online lately but without much success, I am currently on my biggest downswing ever and I think my next blog might be about how to handle the variance, downswings, live tournaments and stuff like that.

Anyways I am in London right now for the WSOPE and staying on Tufats couch until the EPT begins (actually his couch broke down so I am sleeping on the floor!) planning on playing a lot of live and online tournaments while im over here. Yesterday I played the 2,5k£ 6-max WSOPE event and I had a really tough starting table with Kingdan, PureProfitFour and a bunch of competent guys I didn't recognize. The structure was pretty shallow so after 3betting AK three times, bricking all of them, cbetting and getting shoved on all three occasions I was pleased that my starting stack of 7,5k had only dwindled to 6k. Then I got moved to a table with Sorel Mizzi, Praz Bansi and Phil Hellmuth! Hellmuth played a bunch of absurd hands and was generally way more agressive (though not necessarily better) than the impression I got from watching him on TV. After sitting there for about an hour Hellmuth busted me in the following hand:

My stack: ~ 6000
Phil Hellmuth: ~15000
Blinds 100/200-25a. I have Qd5d on the button
Preflop: folds to me I make it 475 and Hellmuth defends his big blind.
Flop: Flop: 6d 8d 8c
Hellmuth checks and I bet 500, he says "yo lets raise it up son" (not kidding) and makes it 1100, I think for 40 seconds and ships my stack in and he tanks for two minutes before calling with 69o and I brick for an uneventful exit.

Pretty happy with how I played just unfortunately that I couldn't get any momentum going at all. I am really enjoying London so the next couple of days are gonna be filled with sightseeing and WCOOPS and then the 1,5k sideevent on saturday.