Im not going to start saying how bad im having it, how the poker gods are against me or how unlucky i am, this year has been all about positive thoughts that have in general lead to positive results and an over all good year. I came to vegas on a high and playing in my mind my best poker in my career so obviously my expectations for vegas where also high, im not stupid enough to think that winning a braclet was going to be anything but very very very difficult, or that beating the cash games was going to as profitable as last year, but over all ive got to say ive failed to hit any of the standards id set myself. Granted ive not had the run of the green with the hands ive been dealt, but that would but so easy and so wrong to blame my current vegas P&L position on, the truth is so far on this trip ive played well below my "A" game and in a city of poker pros anything less than the "A" game gets found out! Yesterday was another example, i didnt play bad but all i was doing was playing cards, solid hands solid position but nothing else for me that ranks as about my "D" game. My last live game before Vegas was the Irish open in Dublin, the contrast to my play there and my play here couldnt be any more diffrent. In Ireland i picked up three or four stand out tells on players, in Vegas ive spotted none. In Ireland i say i was tuned into a good 70% of the players ranges, in Vegas its well below 50% and in Ireland i was on to players betting parterns, this trip so far in Vegas im playing in the dark. On my "A" game the combination of these things gives me a chance, without them im just another joe with money to burn, i need to up it and up it now!! Its make or break time today, its the $2000 WSOP event #32 and if i dont perform in this event im calling it aday! The fact that im on to why im not playing so great gives me something positive to focus on rather than the negative standard losing players speak of "im card dead, or i cant hit, or i keep getting outdrawn". Im also over the jet lag and im starting to feel a little love again for the place, so all in all ive got no excusess.....................well only time will tell.