I have maintained about 13k up since I got my money on Bodog last Tuesday.  What a struggle though for the last few days.  Certainly over 6 days I would be very happy with my result but the extremes are well EXTREME.  As I mentioned I started off up 5k on the first day and got to 13k in the next 3 days, my lowest downswing was about $3,500 from my peek.  One of the things I do really well is I play a lot when I have some momentum.  I certainly have had a lot of evidence that my momentum is gone.  So let me tell you something I heard a long time ago and I repeat often.  Roy Cooke once wrote an article about his very first lesson in poker, basically when he was playing and made a bad call one of the players berated him asking “what were you thinking?” and right then he got his first lesson in poker, that he should be thinking.  I rely on that when I get frustrated because its not a given that everyone is thinking and if that is indeed the case that is a good thing.

Every summer my wife and I are religious about the show Big Brother, it’s not as good as the England version because basically no one has sex, or if they do they don’t show too much of it.  I usually think I can win show if I ever got on but in reality I don’t think I could make it past week 2.  My wife on the other hand would be a shoe in to win.  Basically anyone who avoids conflict typically does well yet every season people come in ready to battle.  Meanwhile some person that you don’t even know is even on the show wins the thing.  Thus far it hasn’t been that entertaining and Dick seems to be making the same mistakes everyone always makes.  He will be gone within weeks.  My early vote is on Jessica since I barely have seen her on the show.  They did have a cool twist; there is a secret player that does “America’s” dirty work.  That is a lot better than the recent twists they have had.

As you can tell from Brandon’s blog when the WSOP ends it’s not really over, especially when you are not from Las Vegas because everyone back home wants to know how things went.  I clearly don’t have the kinds of regrets Brandon has because I didn’t go very far but you think about hands a lot.  Being an early chip leader people keep asking how I lost all of those chips and if you have never played a big chip tourney you might not completely get it.  One or two bad things going the wrong way and your tournament can be over. 

I leave for Alaska to go whale watching next Friday.  It has become a small tradition to do a family vacation after the WSOP is over and I can not wait.