Exams Over, 5/10 Update, Exchange, Vegas!!!

So exams are finally over and I can get back to grinding now. I leave for Vegas next Thursday so I have about a week to complete my 5/10 goals. I want to make 10K at HU and 25K at 6-Max and then return from Vegas a fully-fledged 10/20+ player. I’ll try to play 5/10 exclusively this week so I can give myself the best shot at finishing it, but if juicy games run at higher stakes I’m not going to turn them down. I’ve been feeling a lot more confident at 10/20 now and even at 25/50 the dollar amounts aren’t phasing me much anymore. Speaking of 25/50, I took another shot yesterday when a certain well-known fish was playing. I proceeded to lose $9000 versus him when he made a set against my KK in a 3-bet pot and when I ran 99 into his QQ preflop. I then managed to win $10000 back just by grinding several medium sized pots without showdown and was feeling really good but then lost a postflop flip in a 3-bet pot (QQ v JKh on 467hh) to end up down. Luckily I won at 5/10 and 10/20 so I ended the session down only $500 or something.

Before I leave for Vegas I need to complete my exchange application form which shouldn’t take too long but will be a bit tedious nonetheless. I haven’t quite decided on my five preferences but at this stage it’s looking like it’ll be:

1) Cornell, USA
2) Queens, Canada
3) Copenhagen, Denmark
4) Utrecht, Netherlands
5) Emory, USA

The first four are pretty solidly locked in but I’m not sure about the fifth. Nothing else available looks particularly enticing so I guess I’ll just throw in another US one. I decided not to waste a preference on Harvard or NYU because there’s simply no chance I’ll get in. The other options of note are University of Texas at Austin, University of Victoria (British Columbia) and Vrije University (Amsterdam).

I’m pretty psyched for Vegas. I’ve decided to play the main event but I’m not sure if I’ll play any cash games because I don’t feel like lugging an extra $10K over there just on the off chance I decide to play cash (I figure you need about that much for 10/20 and I wouldn’t really want to play lower live). I just wish PokerStars had a bank there like they did at PCA. It’d make life so much easier!

Anyway, so it looks like this week is going to be filled with a lot of grinding, some errands, some clothes shopping, some drinking and some partying. And then after that it’ll be the first and last things, only in Vegas instead of Sydney! Cool huh!