Grinding post DOJ, decent start to the month

Not going to post about "black friday" (only "black" for US players lol); many people more well versed than me have already written on the subject. Risk had a nice blog post on the subject which you can read here:

http://www.pokernetwork.com/blog/on-market-change26234.htm

Basically US players are unable to play on the three major poker sites (pokerstars/full tilt/ultimate bet) and there had been questions raised over the long-term health of the latter two sites as their traffic is predominantly from the US.

However, this means that in the short term at least, the tournaments online have gotten significantly softer, providing great incentive to grind. SCOOP is currently on at the moment as well. I'm really hoping that I can keep knocking out scores; while the tournaments are smaller, it is also really easy to go deep multiple times a day; for instance last Friday I managed six final tables:

* 1st 109/20k 6m 5.1k
* 1st 26/8k 2.4k
* 3rd 75 6max 2.4k
* 5th 90c party 2.7k
* 7th big double
* 8th 30r/12.5k

... followed by today's binking of my 2nd largest career score online; the stars $162/50k (obligatory screen shot below)



Footy is also going well, I broke a club record kicking ten goals vs Nowra a couple of weeks ago, I'm hoping the boys can kick on and have a great season. Still lacking in fitness and haven't lost much weight, poker really fucks with my sleep patterns and energy levels, especially when the SCOOPs are starting ridiculously early.