So I have still not decided where I want to focus myself.

I decided to withdraw from Prima and concentrate at party. I am giving up my juicy rakeback percentage, but I think the games on party are so juicy themselves that I will make more without the rakeback, especially now I have decided against the HU NL games.

For some reason I am a good player HU NL cash and not so great when it comes to SNG format. I think my problem is I try to make too many plays early and over complicate things.

So my basis on no rakeback at party....

I have been accustomed to rakeback whenever I have played for real money. I am a cash game player and it is going to be a bit weird not getting that cash at the end of the month, but I have really fallen for party poker in a big way. I love the tournament structure there and the cash games are really nice.

I raked in over $400 in a month at prima, but it pretty much just made me break even over there after those HU games. The rake is incredible and very difficult to beat. To be honest, I can't see there being that much of an edge at NL50 and NL100, so unless I go on a massive run, I won't be playing HUNL for a long time.

So what now?

I still haven't decided. I have been on and off playing the 2 PLO8 MTT's I was doing well in. So far I haven't been able to make a cash which mostly I put down to variance and a cold deck. This may sound a bit arrogant of me, but it's true. I know the tournaments I went out in because of my bad play and there was a couple.

I have been toying around at 2/4 SHL and rereading some SHL articles by Jason Pohl. They seem to be helping me and currently I am running well with my short sample size (5bb/100 I think).

I have almost decided that I should start playing a lot more tournaments. I have never faired well when it comes to party tournaments (Except PLO8) but I think it's time I looked at these a bit more. I know I said I am done with NLH MTT's, but I just can't give them up with the current prizepools I am seeing. I wish I could just win one and then be done with it, but I think I will always play these, bust out, slag them off and never play them again, then come back and play them.

I have been giving PLO8 cash a bit of a try as well, not fairing so well. The last hand I played I was stacked when I had two pair and the nut flush draw. This guy had previously gone all in with trash and scooped against THREE players preflop. I have to be good right? Wrong, he had a set and I didn't improve.

I am intrigued to play a bit of FLO8 now. This is mainly because I had read diamond cutters diary over at THP.

I think what I need to do is devise a plan.

2/4 FLH
1/2 FLO8
PL50 O8
PL50 O
.5/1 FL Stud8

I haven't mentioned the last on that list at all. That's because I haven't really thouight about it till now. Not knowing how to play a game annoys me. I want to be good at every poker game and not just focus on one, therefore I think I will do a bit of reading on Stud and give that a go for the forseeable future. I probably won't dedicate much time to it because I really need to start swelling my BR. It has been stagnating this last month and it's time I got a bit of focus and really geared myself up for some long sessions, something I haven't done for a few weeks.


In other news, I played two THP HU Mtt's and busted out in the second round in both of them. I played pretty crappy and wasn't interested in them after I made the money.

I 12 tabled NLH$50 at party for an hour the other night to see if I could do it with relative ease. I was just bored really and fancied something different.

I am currently in the process of creating a poker website. More details on this and the other projects that are linked with this will follow. I don't want to et the cat out of the bag until it is finished.

Rake4poker.com - currently stagnant, no progress there.

Pokerblue - All is going well, we have a few big promotions relating to the WSOP.

Real Life - Yeah as if I have one. My sleeping patterns are screwed and I got up at 2am this morning. I really don't have any concept of time these days, a blessing and a curse I suppose.

Right, I think that's about it.