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Barcelona trip is over. I couldn't cash from any events and my cash games were only enough to cover my tournament fees. I think I'll never play a bad structured tournament or mid-stake live cash game again. People know how to play poker, they have huge leaks in their games but they don't make big big mistakes. To exploit the leaks you have to play lots of hands against them and you can play at most 4 hands on a 8 hours live session with one villain.

I stopped playing full-ring online because I wasn't able to focus on players, I had to play tighter and it's less likely I'm playing against that guy when I'm in the hand. When it comes to live full-ring it's a live shorthanded grinder's hell. I play 6 tables online, around 120 hands per hour in each of the tables and I'm playing it quite loose as they are shorthanded tables and people know when to fold usually. When it comes to live games I'm dealt one card every 2 minutes and I'm playing much tighter because it's full-ring and people are less like to fold. Then I think I play 50 times more hands/hour online than live.

After being card dead for 4 hours loosing a coinflip with an overpair to flush + gutshot draw feels quite bad. I think live games are for people who can't win online. At the casino whenever I saw a guy, scandinavian looking, carrying and ipod and playing with cool manners I asked them which sites they were playing. They all confessed that they don't play online cash games because it became very though lately.

I ended this month with 12 bb/100 on a reasonable amount of hands online. I made some adjustments in my game and my game for the first time in history become kind of unorthodox. I'm not willing to tell here what I changed but it sure helped a lot to increase my aggression.

I'm delaying my live games until I start playing nl 5k (except Cyprus ;) )

good luck every one.