What goes up...

...must come down (otherwise known as gravity).

A downswing was inevitable and it has arrived in full force. Since my last blog entry I picked up another few buy-ins before losing $13.5k over the course of the last 7 days. In the grand scheme of things, 13.5 buy-ins is not that big of a deal unless you are one of those guys who plays on a short bankroll (with 20 buy-ins or less). I could list off 20 things that aren't going for me at the tables right now but I know no one wants to read that. They say that you can learn a lot from a player by seeing how he/she deals with a downswing. I basically just need to clear my head and hopefully things will start playing out the way I want them to in the near future.

I fly to Kansas tomorrow morning, which is something I am really looking forward to. I'm gonna try to take Sutti and Olli to a couple casinos in Kansas City to get warmed up for Las Vegas. The only problem is that the KC games are pretty tough and they only spread $2/5NL with a max buy-in of $300, due to the law in Missouri that each player can only lose $500 during two hour period (a law which they recently re-enforced). I'd like to play a little higher than that but I suppose I'll have to wait for Vegas.