WSOP 2010, have I used my one time?!

Good evening readers, I hope all is well!

Despite winning a life-changing amount of money, life has been much of the same this month, though I have been a lot lazier with my poker volume! I guess that's because I was very lucky before being in a "job" where I could take a few days off to go and see friends and travel around the country. I think working out that I can't play every day for hours on end and stay sane and instead taking breaks and trips away that has helped me produce higher quality play. As Keys said in his last post, quality is so much more important than quantity and my friend anthonyff proves that with his amazing graph and ROI by having a relaxed schedule.

I'm not sure I deserved the run-good but I had a really good May, playing mainly $345's and some $230's and $115's, recording a 16% ROI in my 300 or so games making around $14k and losing the rakeback (circa $1k in FPP's) in a couple of SCOOP's and Sunday Mill's with no cashes...I had stacks in a couple of 6max SCOOP's I played (before not bothering with any as they were tooo long and at stupid times!) but didn't capitalise and yesterday was top 80 with 3000 left in the Sunday Mill only to lose a basically chip lead pot v a guy who had me covered...was getting that vibe again, only to be given a necessary sense of realism that feelings aren't real!!

The best thing about the win isn't the things I can buy myself but trying to help out others. My Nan wants a new garden set and says she hasn't saved up enough £2 coins yet (everything she has she gives to her children and grand-kids) so it's amazing to be able to just buy her that and I have booked a family trip abroad in Spain which will be the first trip as a family for years! :-) Louise was very calm about the win at first, in fact she should play poker because she barely flinched, but she is enjoying being treated as she deserves and we are going to book our years travelling soon I hope which will be incredible!!

For anybody interested as to what I've bought myself, I used my Mum's broken old car to trade in with a new Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 sxi in pearlescent black (NAMED HER AKON!) saving 4k on the rrp and gave her my Peugeot 206 so that was a good deal all round, and I have bought some clothes and a nice camera for when we go travelling. The cool headphones are being ordered tonight but apart from that nothing too extravagant really, once a nit always a nit!!

I also booked my trip to Vegas for the last few weeks of this years WSOP...I am aiming to play the $1k event the day after I arrive and then the Main Event, and I haven't decided whether or not to be partially staked through it yet. I did think of setting $10k as an aim to make in June and just using that to buy in, but I might sell around 30% at 1.3 if there is any interest? If not, I hope that some friends will be up from percentage swaps as I enjoy this as a good way of reducing variance and getting a fun sweat!

Good luck everybody, whether you're in Vegas or just playing online or even reading this from work, run well! :-)

Paul,x