Thanks And here were the hands that did it:

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- i should've just pushed the river, but eh.
- this guy was an insane lag (87/35) so i was just trying to take it down on the flop, but that turn was just perfect.

Just put in a monster 5 hour session. Lost a buyin at NL200 to start with thanks to this gem: but i made most of it back. I played a bunch of SNGs, omaha, stud, holdem; headsup, 4player HU, STTs. I won a fair few of them. Overall i ended up about 130, so not a bad session.

700 MORE VPP POINTS TILL IM A GOLDSTAR, YAY!!

So yes. I went to Sydney for the weekend and it was not all that fun really. I went to the Casino there and wanted to play poker but the waiting lists were like ~2 hours long and we didn't have that much time, so I ended up dropping like $200 at blackjack. I made about $100 back playing craps (i have NO idea how to play the game, i just bet on the pass/win line, and i won, yay).

As for poker I haven't really played much over the past few days. I've been in a godawful shit mood for various reasons, mostly ex-related. I played a HU match today at stars but played atrociously so I decided not to play anymore, i almost won actually but...didn't.

I'm going to melbourne on the 4th and staying down there for a week till the 11th. The Crown Casino apparently has very juicy cash games so i'm going down with a few friends to check it out. I'll most likely be playing nl 2/3 and nl2/5 with $200 and $500 respective max buyins. I may take my laptop down with me so if I do i'll try update here, otherwise i probably won't get a chance to. I ordered my Ipod today which I desperately want to get here before the trip, I can't imagine playing 80 hours of poker in a week without one of them.

Hmm, what else? I'm up a bit over $6k for the month. Best month i've had in my poker career as far as poker-winnings go ($2.4k so far) aswell as just under $4k in casino income, so everything is looking mighty fine atm.

My life is in a bit of a rut at the moment. I'm currently accepting ideas on how to get over/move on from my ex. We have had very minimal contact for the past couple of weeks and likely won't be talking at all for the next month or so. I've been trying to engulf myself in live poker play but I don't think that's the solution. Hooking up with someone else sounds promising but i'm not much for the club scene and there isn't really any females of interest in my life atm. Alcohol has been a kind deterrant for a while but it's not the healthiest of solutions. Any suggestions?! Go crazy and work out a lot? Resign to a life of WoW?! (god save me) Go travel the world?! (i've been thinking about that a bit lately and it seems like a not-so-bad-idea..). Last but not least, go on a killing spree. But that's ONLY as a last resort. It would be fun though.

I think I will. When I get back from my melb trip i'll look into it more.

I just played a session of nl200 at stars and dropped 2 buyins fairly quickly. Including my HU sng from earlier thats -450 in a little over an hour. Ugh. I made one bad call which cost me $140. The rest was probably from semi-optimal play too. Hm. The poker rut continues.