I've had a mixed bag of results since my last post.

I lost a few dollars playing cash games when tired. I have started to realise that the difference (or at least one of the differences) between winning and losing at the games which make up HORSE is chasing hands. If you stay in hoping to hit hands you will lose a lot of money.

Starting hand selection is key. At the hi/low games, some hands that look pretty ( eg JJ56 double suited at omaha) are actually pretty/very bad hands and will lose you both halves of the pot.

Played a whole bunch of tournaments this weekend. Highlights include:

• Winning a small HA tournament (no idea what that stands for) but its a mixed PLH and PLO hi game. Very small in fact $11 buy in, 24 entrants, 1st paid $120.
• Getting second in a a very small HORSE tournament. $55 buy in, 16 entrants, 2nd paid $240. I should have won this, I had a 2 to 1 chip lead going heads up, but through it all away in the omaha round. I simply don't have any heads up experience at these limit games - 1st paid $400.
• I won a satellite to the Hendon Mob shoot out event 1 on Thursday. Worth $109 - $15 buy in, 25 entrants.

Lows include:

• Coming 12/91 in a $5.5 limit omaha hi/low tourny - 3 hours wasted there - I was almost the very first person knocked out down to 3 big bets, but survived to go deep and win nothing.
• Coming 7/43 for $17 in a $15 satellite to the $109 Saturday $60k tourny on FTP, there were 5 seats and I had the chip lead with 8 left - that is just not acceptable to miss from there.
• Getting knocked out to a a horrendous bad beat in 350th place out of 1007 in a $26 tourny where I played perfectly and had that winning feeling.

Sort term goals - win Hendon Mob shoot out 1. Win seat to HORSE event at FTOPS. Win HORSE event.