Well Kirk Morrison was the last of my WSOP main event picks, Nordberg and Sorel Mizzi also made it to around about the top hundred. Not too bad, but ultimately no good.

I had a strange weekend. Lost $20 playing HORSE on Friday and $22 getting knocked out of the Razz tourny. After that I played some 5/10 Razz because Chris Jesus Ferguson was at the table. That was cool. I lost $34, although I was marginally ahead most of the time.

Yesterday I entered a $5 PLO high rebuy tourny and won it for $392.85 - there were 103 entrants.

I decided to take the Daniel Negreanu approach and invested $40 in the tourny, but it worked because I was in second at the end of the rebuy period with about 15k. Within half an hour of that I had 100k out of the 460k in play, with about 40 left.

I managed to maintain that level through to the final table. With about 5 left I found myself in third, but knocked out the other four in turn to take it down.

The tourny took 5 hours because there are no antes and short stacks can stay for hours without playing a hand.

I would have knocked out the 4th and 5th pace finishers much earlier if the big stack hadn't been inappropriately throwing his weight around with garbage - in doing so he kept pushing me out of the pots and doubling up the shortstacks. Ultimately though, this enabled me to knock him out later on.

I now have a stud high, a Razz, a PLO high and various no limit tourny wins to my credit. I also have the second in the HORSE tourny.

Tonight I began my quest to win a PLO hi/low tourny, but got knocked out in the first hand of an $11 tourny with trips and a six low, to a wheel - v poor play on my part.

Cash game results from the last few days (excluding the 5/10 Razz dalliance):

HORSE (-$20) 55 hands, 30 minutes.
Razz ($-11.70) 20 hands, 12 minutes

I plan to play more HORSE cash games. I will also try to win a seat to the HORSE event at the next FTOPS series in early August. I don't plan on playing any nl hold em for the forseeable future - the other games are so much more fun.