Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I have been so busy the last couple of months I haven't really found the time to write a proper blog which is a shame, il try to make this a more regular thing in the future.
Anyways at the start of November I was sitting third in the Bluff OPOY race and did some calculations and figured out I actually had a pretty good shot at winning it (id say around 70-80%) if I could just play non-stop until the end of the year. Even though it wasn't something that meant a ton to me I still thought it would be a cool title to have and since I would probably never have a year where I put in as much volume also a once in a lifetime opportunity. So I set out on a mission averaging about 120 tournies a day playing 16 hour sessions across six sites day in and day out. My schedule for the first three weeks where literally like this every single day:

4-6pm: get up, run errands and figure out some dinner arrangement
6pm-9am: play poker 20-30 tabling throughout almost the entire sesison.
9am-4pm: sleep

Rinse and repeat, im sure you get the picture.

During this period I lost the vast majority of my sessions, didn't see the sun once, had almost no time for a social life and sat in a chair staring into a screen all day. I cared more about signing up to a 75$ Stud tourney than I did about going grocery shopping or preparing a proper meal. Without being results oriented I think it's safe to say that going for the OPOY race with such a big gap between me and the guy in first was a pretty stupid mistake. By the time November ended I was still in contention, I estimate I had a 25-30% chance of winning it but with the prospect of spending another month trapped inside in front of my computer playing all day, not getting enough sleep and not seeing any of my friends I wisely decided to drop it. I definitely wanted to win it and i'm a little disappointed I gave up on it, but in the end it wasn't really worth the price I was paying.

I haven't played much since then but I have cut significantly down on the number of tables i'm playing (it's still
more than most people play but realizing you don't have to play every 20r and 55fo is a big step for me ), finally started using HEM and dedicated more time to studying and watching videos again. The first day back I won the 109c at a very tough final table, last sunday I won the 215r and 53 Super Turbo and yesterday I got 2nd in the 215 plo and had some other deep runs as well. I am 4/4 in profitable sessions in December and couldn't be happier about how I am playing and how some of all the small adjustments I have made are already paying off (cutting tables, less surfing around and fewer/shorter sessions).

That brings us to this sunday where I was grinding with a good buddy of mine who lives in Iowa but is visiting Copenhagen for christmas. my session started out pretty well and I build a lot of decent stacks most notable being 15/20 in the AP 500 and 18/27 in a huge 109fo on Stars and 3/13 in the Super Highroller on Party.
But this is where the nightmare begins when my connection all of a sudden and with no warning goes down. Now in the last year I think I have only disconnected once before and it was up and running again in minutes (and needless to say I use my internet A LOT) so I fully expected the same would be the case here. After five minutes the connection is still down and I try to remain calm, I try a different computer, try to reset the router, try to see if any of my neighbors have a connection without password and nothing works, FUCK. I like to think I handle bad beats for huge amounts of equity about as well as anyone, but being in a situation like this where you have zero control over the situation is insanely frustrating. I try to call around to all my friends to find someone who can take over while I work on a solution but everyone is either playing or not picking up.

After thirty minutes the connection finally gets back up but at this point I have blinded off around 6k in equity and all of my big stacks are completely demolished. I quickly unreg the rest of my schedule and kick myself for not having a backup plan for a situation like this. I quickly bust most of the remaining tournies except Partys Super High Roller where I chip up nicely to 3/7 until the following hand happens for the chiplead:

***** Hand History for Game 9937294686 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $2,000 USD Buy-in Trny:56800584 Level:17 Blinds-Antes(1.000/2.000 -200) - Sunday, December 12, 21:46:38 EST 2010
Table $50K Gtd Super High Roller (2083963) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 7/10
Seat 8: CuteCupcakes ( 69,070 )
Seat 7: PartBoss ( 59,995 )
Seat 6: SirWatts ( 51,306 )
Seat 4: YongSupremcy ( 27,497 )
Seat 5: dxfcghbj ( 143,644 )
Seat 10: maffasa ( 47,944 )
Seat 9: raidalot ( 80,544 )
Trny:56800584 Level:17
Blinds-Antes(1.000/2.000 -200)
YongSupremcy posts ante [200]
dxfcghbj posts ante [200]
SirWatts posts ante [200]
PartBoss posts ante [200]
CuteCupcakes posts ante [200]
raidalot posts ante [200]
maffasa posts ante [200]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to CuteCupcakes [ Jh Jd ]
YongSupremcy folds
dxfcghbj folds
SirWatts folds
PartBoss folds
CuteCupcakes raises [4,000]
raidalot calls [3,000]
maffasa is all-In [45,744]
CuteCupcakes is all-In [64,870]
raidalot folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 4h, 9c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ts ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8c ]
CuteCupcakes shows [ Jh, Jd ]a pair of Jacks.
maffasa shows [ Ac, 2s ]a pair of Aces.
CuteCupcakes wins 21,126 chips from the side pot 1 with a pair of Jacks.
maffasa wins 100,888 chips from the main pot with a pair of Aces.

Im left with just 10 big blinds after that and really over the whole sunday. For those who don't know the tournament has a buy-in of 2k and has a really steep payout structure that pays first 25k, second 15k and third 10k so mincashing is worth a lot. Somehow I manage to chip up nicely by shoving a lot preflop and winning a flip and before I know it I am right back in contention as 2/5. After that I lose a flip but almost immediately after I know out Youngsupremacy with my KQ vs his AK that catches a lucky straight on the turn. Fourhanded the stacks are almost dead even and playing for a 10k bubble is a little nerve-wracking even for me :) Thankfully someone busts after only 20 hands and the chipleader takes out another guy and all of a sudden I am heads-up against Raidalot! We exchange blinds back and forth a bit before I lose a big pot with 75 vs his T7 on 46938 and soon after it's over when my AJo dosent flip well versus his eights.

I was thrilled to get second though and end up slightly profitable for the day instead of a disastrous sunday like it looked like it would turn into only a few hours earlier. First thing I am doing tommorow is getting a backup connection and I urge everyone else who plays poker on just a semi-serious level to do the same, it's probably one of the best investments you can make!

Besides that there really isn't much to report on, I have started dabbling in some cash games at the smaller stakes but haven't really put in any real volume yet, I might post a graph and go into some more details about it once I have a more significant sample.

This blog ended up being way longer than I expected but il try to make them shorter and more frequent in the future, also I am really happy for all the positive feedback me and Timex have gotten on our first video of his deep WCOOP run. Mike is one of the guys who have taught me the most about poker and we often discuss strategy so making these videos is a lot of fun for me as well so hopefully we can have the second one out in the near future.