tired and ill but half heartedly played the laddies 3 rebuy and a stars 5$ toureny ealier with no success. Slept for an hour and woke up just as a 2000$ added omaha PL hi lo was starting on Ladbrokes - with a 500$ bounty on Steve Davis. Haven't played much hi lo but it looked like a laugh. Finished a creditable 62nd out of 228 by having a pretty tight range of starting hands and at one point was 20/100 before seeing a few flops with must see hands and ended up hitting nothing. Got them in with a reasonable hand at the end but again hit nothing. Ended up costing me 40$ including re buys and add on which wasn't very sensible but I enjoyed it.
Also played a stars 8$ tourney but quickly gave up on it to concentrate on the Omaha.
Probably be my last games for a couple of days so hopefully the new year will bring a change of fortune.
Hahahahah - entered a 5$ turbo mtt muppet fest for a laugh - with 3 min blinds it's pretty much anything goes - not complaining as $358.53 is the biggest bankroll boost i've had for a while on Ladbrokes - just ironic that the biggest win for a while comes from the worst standard tourney. Might get pissed and play the graveyard to celebrate. Working tomorrow but fuck it.

GY was ok - saw a few flops early on but didn't hit - then had to fold QQ after an UTG 6xBB raise by a guy who I know to be a good player follwed by an all in by someone I didn't know with a lower stack. UTG turned over AK - it was that or KK AA knowing him so QQ turned out to be a good fold as I didn't want a race that early in a tourney with a decent blind structure and anyway he hit his A. Dead after that but doubled up when the SB made a routine raise and I pushed with A6 to his 55 and hit the 6. Doubled again with JJ on a low flop and was doing ok until it as folded to me in the SB - I have 10 BB's and all in hoping to steal or double - would have been happy either way except that my timing was off as the BB had AK. Prefer that to going out to a bad beat anyway.

Also watched forum mascot Mitchy in a pokerstars freeroll with over 4000 runners - was great fun watching him win - $15000 first prize but a deal made it $10000 - he appreciated the support from a few of us although he isn't quite as chatty at the table as on the forum. Can't say I really know anyone online but you get a fair idea of who people are and it was nice to see someone who's fundamentally a good guy take away a decent prize.

Well thats probably it for this year - off to the countryside tomorrow for 3 days piss up - possibly deserved as I haven't had a day off work since about the 19th Dec - finish work about 9 tomorrow so might stay home and play the sunday 100k and a private game thats going on on Stars but will probably piss off and forget about poker for a few days.

So happy 2008 and may all your dreams come true (apart from those ones about really weird stuff)