As is getting par for the course for me these days, the only tournaments I played all week were the Sundays just now. Results: four total bricks, one well played tourney I wound up bubbling after a couple of setups/whiffed flips, and the UB 200K (for the record, that's the only thing I play at UB now, and only because I've neglected to cash out the last couple of thousand), where I just picked up a final 2 table finish that turned out to be good to make $200 or so on the day total. Because a 15'th place finish out of 900-ish people does nothing for you even in a Sunday major, I'm once again reconfirming that I'd rather be playing MSPLO where it feels like I belong.

Every time I play the game, it feels like it'll take months for me to be anything more than > mediocre at it, but it also feels like I'm better than the competition. Most of that is because I do have a feel for the types of hands I should be playing, which, by itself, makes me better than the guys defending J622ss OOP. But PLO, especially shorthanded PLO vs. the Cake shortstacks that always want to hit and run someone starting a table, is a weird animal and constantly requires rethinking your approach if you are a NL convert*. For example, LFTV's last post, where a gigantic straight wrap/FD combo turns out to be a close fold in a 3 way pot, is not something I'd have ever thought of - although, admittedly, on Cake, I'd still get that in solely because their ranges are so much wider/they're worse.

*Oddly enough, as an FR MTT convert, I think the more loose/passive approach I take than most 6 max NL cash players would is better for MSPLO. Because it's easier to get paid off with the nuts and I very rarely get bluff raised in my games, it's better to play more hands, and the size of the pot preflop and on the flop is not a huge deal since I can still bloat it later if I want to. (Playing against a lot of shortstacks, making pot control irrelevant, works too.)

Long story short: I am playing only an hour or so of several tables per session largely out of laziness and an unwillingness to sit 250+ BB deep at a game I'm not fundamentally solid at, *but*, despite that, I'm booking decent wins even down at 1/2 and 2/4. Once I'm comfortable there, which should be soon, I plan to play more tables, partly move to FTP - there's no way I can handle > 4 shorthanded PLO tables right now and Cake doesn't have the PLO traffic for that yet anyway, so that's a must - and eventually settle in as a regular at 2/4-5/10, which is where I was at NL cash before I mostly stopped playing.

Before I get to Fresno later on, the other thing I'm doing this week is Intrade. Obama should announce his VP pick this week; after that's officially [not Clinton] and probably turns out to be [Bayh, Sebellius], I expect to have made a nice profit and begin to thoroughly handicap the GOP side of the race. For the time being, I'm strongly bullish on [Pawlenty, Eric Cantor] and think that Romney will *not* be the pick, but I need to do a lot more research before I'm comfortable doing anything but bottom feeding on the free 8-10% [not Charlie Crist] bets the market customarily leaves out there. So, while the rest of you guys are busy watching the Olympics, I'll be in Fresno and/or doing political research. Fun! (Well, okay, it is. Celebrity poker donkaments are always awesome.)

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