Euros, Help Me Travel Europe!

So I booked my flights! July 9 from Sydney to Paris and August 15 from Rome to Copenhagen. The question is, what is the best way to get from Paris to Marseille to Barcelona to Rome? I presume I can catch a train from Paris to Marseille but from Marseille to Barcelona and especially from Barcelona to Rome I'm not entirely sure (train, plane, ferry?). Any advice would be awesome.

On the poker front, I haven't been able to play much these last few weeks. I had an exam last week and have one next week and after that I'll still be busy right through till the end of semester so unfortunately it's looking like I won't be able to finish my yearly goals by July. However, that's not really a concern for me anymore because I've decided that I will take my RSAs to Sweden and at least give myself the option of playing poker while there. Initially I was reluctant to do this because I wanted to make sure I made the most of my exchange experience and didn't just grind in my dorm room the whole time. However I decided that letting my game age by 7 months was not a good idea, especially since I'm now definitely taking a year off next year to travel and play full time. I definitely don't want to start next year rusty or behind the times. Also, even though I won't be playing very much, I'll still probably be foregoing about 100K by not playing for those 7 months, and that's a pretty big thing to give up.

I'll definitely make sure I balance my time well though. I'm going to Sweden to have a lot of fun and gain invaluable life experiences, not to just while my time away playing poker. I might even do something like set myself a limit of 10K hands per month and force myself to donate $1 for every hand I play beyond that or give out free coaching or something. We'll see.

Finally I did a video with Andrew which I think went pretty well, and I've also finished 2 of the 3 parts of my new series. I'll do the final part when my self-exclude ends in a week so look out for the series fairly soon!

Good luck at the tables.

Poker Update, Upcoming Videos, Eurotrip

Well I managed to recover from my last downswing and am up 21.5K overall for the month. That's also how my month will end since I've decided to self-exclude myself for the next fortnight so that I can focus on some upcoming mid-terms.

I'm still 32 buy-ins short of my 10/20 goal and only up 53K for the year so I still have quite a bit of work to do if I'm going to reach my yearly goals. By my calculations I only have about four weeks left in which to play so it's going to be very tight. The fourth week though will be after the end of semester so hopefully I can play almost full-time for that one week and get there.

Here's my results for the year so far. And yes, I know I'm hopeless at HU :).



I haven't made a video for quite a while now but I'm hoping to get a series out before I leave for exchange. I'm working on a 3-part 1/2 NL series on the new Deep Ante tables on PokerStars and have already recorded footage for the first two parts. Unfortunately I'm really rusty and am having quite a battle putting commentary to them lol. I'm also doing a Leakfinder with Andrew Wiggins tomorrow so at the very least you'll definitely have one video from me :).

Finally, I'm going to book my Eurotrip this week! I'll be leaving around the 10th of July and spending one week each in Rome, Marseille, Barcelona and Paris, before heading up to Lund University in Sweden. During semester I'll be taking some time off to travel to Germany, Holland and Denmark. Can't wait!

I cracked...

Around about...



I'm not going to blame the run-bad, this one's definitely on me.

I'm really annoyed with myself because I ran really well last month and promised myself that if I ran poorly in the near future I'd just think back to the $20K worth of races that I won at 40/80 and remember to take the good with the bad.

That plan went well until 3 days ago, then *BOOM*, one beat too many = tilt = no more monies...

Time to rebuild again...